Need Help Crafting HQ Items

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At a very basic level you have four types of actions when crafting:

Synthesis actions that will increase the progress of your craft (the ones you've been using).

Touch actions that will increase the quality of your craft (thats the one you want to push as much as you can, ideally 100% to get HQ)

Buffs like Veneration, Innovation, Great Strides... that will make your next Synthesis or Touch action more powerful

Actions that influence the durability of your craft like Waste Not, Manipulation and Masters Mend - if your durability hits 0 before you finish the craft, the craft fails and you'll lose your materials.

Most of these consume CP - but dont worry, all CP are restored after each craft! So dont be afraid to use them all up!
Synthesis and Touch actions also consume durability - most of them 10 durability for each time you perform the action.
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When it comes to crafting HQ-items there is one important mechanic and that is "Inner Quiet" (IQ) and raising Inner Quiet stacks. Those stacks will buff your control-stat (control influences how much the quality increases if you use Touch-actions) and they will buff a skill called "Byregot's Blessing" (you probably dont have that yet, but its gonna become your best friend as crafter).
That is why I'd advice you to start your craft using "Inner Quiet".

After that you want to push the quality, using touch-actions, as much as possible while not letting the durability hit 0 - you can achieve that by using abilities such as "Masters Mend", which will restore durability or by using "Waste Not", which will half the durability used by your actions (so 5 instead of 10).

Since I dont know your stats, its not possible to give you a complete rotation, but depending on how much CP you have, your can try something like this:

Inner Quiet
Waste Not
Synthesis-actions until you only need one more Synthesis action to finish the craft
Touch-Actions to increase the quality - depending on your CP either Basic Touch or Hasty Touch; if you have a lot of CP you can use Innovation to buff the next for Touch-actions aswell.
Finish the craft with the last Synthesis needed when you hit 10 (or if you've been using Waste Not maybe 5) durability and dont have CP left to restore durability with Masters Mend.

It could end up looking something like this:



or like this:



I want to stress the "could" - at your level it depends very much on the craft you're attempting (both of the examples above assume a durability of 80, for example) and I dont know your stats. I hope it gives you a rough idea on how to craft and with that a start on figuring the finer things out by yourself! Basically:
Inner Quiet is key.
Push progress til you have one Synthesis left to finish.
Push Quality using Touch actions and buffs.
Dont let durability hit zero by using actions that restore durability.

A little sidenote: This forum has subforums - you should try putting your posts in the appropriate subforum (if there is one) instead of posting them all in "General Discussion". The appropriate forum for anything crafting related is either "Dsiciples of the Hand" or "Items, Synthesis and Gathering" - both are good places to get advice from people who are into crafting! There are subforums for other categories of questions aswell and you should try picking the correct one for them.