Crafting is almost Perfect !!

[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.