Quote Originally Posted by Nashred View Post
Thanks for the detailed reply Nicodemus_Mercy

I did play around just a little last night with crafting.
I kind of welcome some of the skills going away. Crafting was getting a little bloated with to many of them.
It certainly is harder right now till I get a new rotation. I just got so used to some of those skills.
They really give barely any reason to be a specialist anymore and feel they should have at least left reflect there.
I try to do rotations myself without calculators or others rotations. I also do not use macros for crafting either.
I hear you on skill based crafting and is disappointing because it is one of the reason I liked crafting in FFXIV.
I defiantly hear you on RNG and seems to be SE way of making things tougher. My problem is RNG seems to be off.
We'll have to see if there's more to the crafting changes than what we see right now. I'd wait till ishgard and 3star recipes are out to make a final judgement.

As for your rotation, a good start for most rotations seems to be:
Reflect>Manipulation>Ingenuity>Innovation>Delicate Synthesisx4

After that its really a matter of your stats. The higher they are the less likely you'll need to use HQ mats.