Crafting is almost Perfect !!

[Riv]

/random trolling

Hold Dat


But seriously, use food, get Guild Company Crafting ring; gloves (Great for DoL too); hat; pants. Take your time on the big synths and things should reward you nicely.

So don't bother with gear that has your stat melded to it (such as dex for mh GSM), at least for the higher level crafts? Is anyone noticing a difference stacking gear with your quality stat? I've had melded gear since before the patch and it's all i have so haven't tested without it yet.

Also, did you use all HQ mats for that synth?

[Jinko]

So don't bother with gear that has your stat melded to it (such as dex for mh GSM), at least for the higher level crafts? Is anyone noticing a difference stacking gear with your quality stat? I've had melded gear since before the patch and it's all i have so haven't tested without it yet.

Also, did you use all HQ mats for that synth?

I stack as much control as possible, don't pay any attention to stats besides control.

The last change needed for crafting.

LOL says you ... phhft

[tymora]

Also, did you use all HQ mats for that synth?

No way he could since the Flawless part counts as NQ.

[Estellios]

For any new crafters, getting to 10 Blacksmith for Maker's Muse is recommended. 3 guaranteed success Standard Synths is pretty helpful. Aside from that, anything that guarantees success on next action is useful. Just remember that Rapid Synth only gives you a lot of progress if you get "Great" success with it, but any success with it doesn't use durability. Also, remember that Standard uses around 12-15 durability no matter what, whereas Careful uses around 8-10.

Any abilities that "Advance Progress" or recover durability are also really nice for completing tough synths.

As your gear and abilities get better (do you have limited slots at low levels or are they all unlocked on lower level crafting classes?) you can try putting on some quality abilities for better XP gains.

Currently for my crafts I'm opening with Determination (150% progress boost) and Standard Synth, usually getting to 50-60 Progress, followed by Byragot's Blessing stacked with 125% quality abilities. Sometimes I can get 200+ Quality in 1 action, my highest was 350ish.

The elemental Brands are also really useful for any higher-level synths as they clear ALL destabilization and getting rid of the matching element gives you 100 quality, 20 quality for non-matching.

[Denmo]

Wasn't there some hint dropped by Yoshi or the devs that crafting would be instant if you wanted to just mass produce? I mean I know Hasty Hand is there, but I was thinking like, Select Recipe -> Hit something like "Standard Craft" -> *Bang Boom Saw Hiss* -> Item get. And if you wanted the bonus EXP and a chance at HQ you'd go the current route.

Or a way to mass produce a large quantity at once for minimal EXP. Like taking all your Cotton Bolls and converting them to Cotton Thread. To me that's what Hasty Hand should do instead of one at a time. But I understand that this isn't something the current server engine can handle. I'm looking at 2.0.

Still though, for what it is right now, it's vastly improved from even FFXI crafting standards.

[Estellios]

I think the "instant success" was probably just the hasty hand fix (which is amaaaazing btw). Hopefully the "mass production" is something coming in 2.0, since it would be nice to do a bunch of mats at once.

[Kiote]

One thing I would like to suggest is to change the crafting menu/list to actual icons on the action bar.

The last change needed for crafting.

[Kiote]

With the New Hastey Hands you can make a stack of just about anything in less than 5 mins with no risk. I think thats fast enough personally.

[Estellios]

I've noticed a difference on how much Quality you get per action when wearing appropriate melded gear/rings, it's helped immensely when XPing.

[Cousinjimmy]

All synths were performed using HQ mats when possible. I've been using Master's Forge lately, seems to be helping out a bit on harder synths. After going 3/8 on Zicorn Rings today (4 busts being 86%+ >> 4X%DD) and cursing like a pirate, I HQed a pair of avengers lol, had to bareback rapid @ 99% but it's all good XD. Btw Flawless parts counts as NQ in HD synths, so all synths starts at a little below 350Q.

OK seriously, atm I do not have sufficent data to form any sort of reasonable hypothesis on HD crafting. Also I am not a fan of relying on destabilization -- way too random and HD final synths is a brickwall fest -- breaking all the way towards completion.