Crafting Changes Kill Crafting

[Mightion]

I just tried some of the new crafting, and failed miserably, and am somewhat confused.

I'm basically using all 430 crafted gear + secondary item, all overmelded, plus my three specialists (ARM, BSM and GSM) have 440 primary. When overmelding, I aimed for Craftsmanship and Control; only able to get 2 CP overmelds on the left side...
My stats top out at 2289 Craftmanship for ARM, slightly less for BSM and GSM, Control is in the 2161-2174 range, while my CP is 482. :/
I'm using Popotoes au Gratin for food..
I don't use macros.. though am now open to it..

I basically have very low chance at crafting any of the new subcombines, much less the final items anywhere near a decent HQ chance - I wasted a lot of mats trying to make a facet pickaxe... which came out NQ and worthless.

I saw someone in Eulmore with two overmelds on their 430 jacket, but the game will not let me attempt to put on a 4th gem.

What am I doing wrong? I'm guessing my CP is low, but if I remeld for that, my control and craftsmanship will go down, too. How are people getting the levels of CP/craft/control I see in some 5.1 macros I looked up?

[RyuSaarva]

I just tried some of the new crafting, and failed miserably, and am somewhat confused.

I'm basically using all 430 crafted gear + secondary item, all overmelded, plus my three specialists (ARM, BSM and GSM) have 440 primary. When overmelding, I aimed for Craftsmanship and Control; only able to get 2 CP overmelds on the left side...
My stats top out at 2289 Craftmanship for ARM, slightly less for BSM and GSM, Control is in the 2161-2174 range, while my CP is 482. :/
I'm using Popotoes au Gratin for food..
I don't use macros.. though am now open to it..

I basically have very low chance at crafting any of the new subcombines, much less the final items anywhere near a decent HQ chance - I wasted a lot of mats trying to make a facet pickaxe... which came out NQ and worthless.

I saw someone in Eulmore with two overmelds on their 430 jacket, but the game will not let me attempt to put on a 4th gem.

What am I doing wrong? I'm guessing my CP is low, but if I remeld for that, my control and craftsmanship will go down, too. How are people getting the levels of CP/craft/control I see in some 5.1 macros I looked up?

you are trying to the meld wrong materia, read the item info, you can only overmeld 1 VI or VIII and the rest can be any other tier, also you don't need to use any VIII or VII at all anyway to make the new facet set easily, I only had VI on the open slot and VI overmelded once and after that I had V and IV and III on accessories as the last materia, tools only had 1 overmeld materia for cp also stromblood bis crafting food which gives you about 50 cp and control was good enough, did not even need to use the slightly better shadowbringers cp food.

don't copy random internet rotations and make you own if you use different food or melds and don't start testing your rotation on items which have expensive mats, start with the previous tier items, they are only slightly easier.

[Mightion]

you are trying to the meld wrong materia, read the item info, you can only overmeld 1 VI or VIII and the rest can be any other tier, also you don't need to use any VIII or VII at all anyway to make the new facet set easily, I only had VI on the open slot and VI overmelded once and after that I had V and IV and III on accessories as the last materia, tools only had 1 overmeld materia for cp also stromblood bis crafting food which gives you about 50 cp and control was good enough, did not even need to use the slightly better shadowbringers cp food.

don't copy random internet rotations and make you own if you use different food or melds and don't start testing your rotation on items which have expensive mats, start with the previous tier items, they are only slightly easier.

Figures it was staring me in the face (The VII vs VIII/VI); this should help.