Thread: HQ ability guide Post 1.21

Originally Posted by Mister-Wonderful

By also using tender touch, and Less is more(I think 30 cul) instead of innovation and inspiration, you gain about another 8 to 10 percent progress in the durability saved. I can typically do the entire synth with all careful synth and finish off with a single Perfection + rapid synth at the end for a guarenteed 30-35 percent progress, maximizing the amount of careful synths I can do per synth, and saving the need to waste durability on standard synth.

And you are assuming Perfection will always go off. I prefer to do it earlier so that I have a backup plan.

And Perfection should belong to "Top Tier" imo.

Originally Posted by tymora

And you are assuming Perfection will always go off. I prefer to do it earlier so that I have a backup plan.

And Perfection should belong to "Top Tier" imo.

With lower level mats Rapid synth is quite reliable even when perfection fails and pretty successful on finished items without it as well. And on finished items I don't think I've had it not work, seeing as how it is most effective on finished items, it probably does not fail or I have extraordinarily high luck.

If you want to play it safe do perfection near the end, then finish with hand of the gods.

If a one-shot ability is "most effective for finished items" for example, then it will never fail when used in the creation of a finished item. I don't have Perfection, so not sure how I would use it. I always finish up with Hand of the Gods.

For Weaver I use Determination (increases influence of MND on quality) which you don't have listed.

Originally Posted by Raldo

I'd like to throw Innovation in as a nice ability. If you're going to set one of the 1-turn quality+ abilities, I like this one the most. Unlike the rest of them, this one doesn't say there's a "chance" of increased quality, it just gives it to you (albeit at the cost of decreased success rate).

Probably not the best choice however, if you're making super hard stuff.

I like innovation as well, and it stacks with Inspiration.

I really do not like Masterpiece as it seems to produce low quality gains.

I also like tender touch and you can do the same things you are doing with Ingenuity.

Originally Posted by mwlodar

1. Has anyone figured out if there are any stat caps for crafting yet?
2. Which one of the three stats (craftsmanship, magic craftsmanship, control) are best to meld if you're going for HQ?

Increase Craftsmanship as high as you can now. Next I would look to raise control but if your going for quality you want more craftsmanship. You can also eat rollenberry cheese.