New 2-star recipes/rotations of EW 6.05

[Caimie_Tsukino]

The stats requirements for the new 2 star stuff are just sooooo low! I thought I'd run into some trouble with my silly "Piety pentamelds", but I'm actually doing just fine!

I thought I'd need at least Blood Bouillabaisse, but no, I actually just needed Match HQ! LOL!

Below are my current stats for my non-spec, and also my "pentamelds" which emphasizes on Piety (just kidding... it's for spiritbonding! But it still works fine to craft these things!):





(To be fair, I did use 2 pieces of Grade 10 materia on my choker and bracelet in-slot melds, and I did some minimal overmelded with Grade 9 materia on these 2 pieces of accessories as well. But apart from these, I used ONLY Grade 7 / 8 materia for my melds.)

Note that I still CANNOT effectively macro the 2-star 70 durab items from 0 to max quality with these silly melds (I need 2 pieces of HQ mats if I macro). But I CAN effectively macro the 2-star 35 durab items from 0 to max, and I only needed to use Matcha HQ without any kind of med. And with a few pieces of HQ mat, the final 70 durab item is nothing difficult.

My macro just needed 602 CP, and it's below:

/ac "Reflect" <wait.3>
/ac "Manipulation" <wait.2>
/ac "Veneration" <wait.2>
/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Groundwork" <wait.3>
/ac "Groundwork" <wait.3>
/ac "Groundwork" <wait.3>
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Manipulation" <wait.2>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/echo EW 2* 35dur #1 602cp Done! <se.2>

/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Standard Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Advanced Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/ac "Tricks of the Trade" <wait.3>
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Basic Synthesis"
/echo EW 2* 35dur #2 602cp Complete! <se.6>

The Trick of Trade is there to prevent Poor condition on Byregot. Just ignore the error message.

If you need a bit more extra power for quality. Easily add a line of...
/ac "Trained Finesse" <wait.3>
...after the Advanced Touch. It will cost you and extra 32 CP. So the macro becomes 637cp.

I am on 3247 craft / 3219 control (after food). If you have too much craft, you will actually prematurely complete the item with this macro. So just add a line of...
/ac "Final Appraisal" <wait.3>
...before your final Groundwork.



If you are one of those who spent millions of gil pentamelding with Grade X materia. Well, you should have sufficient stats to effectively macro the 70 durab items from 0 to max!!! So you can just NQ all your intermediate mats to save time! Please make the best use of your stats, fellow crafters!


As for the 70 durab items, I do need Chili Crab HQ and Craftsman's Cunning Tea HQ to perform my macro.

Here's my rotation in summary:

...pretty sure every veteran crafter would arrive at something similar anyway, so I don't wanna call it my rotation. I like humorous names, so I just call it the "Why need finesse" rotation since it doesn't need Trained Finesse! LOL!

Here's the macro for it... Good lord, we don't even need to fully utilize all 30 lines of these macros to do it:

/ac "Muscle Memory" <wait.3>
/ac "Manipulation" <wait.2>
/ac "Veneration" <wait.2>
/ac "Waste Not II" <wait.2>
/ac "Groundwork" <wait.3>
/ac "Groundwork" <wait.3>
/ac "Delicate Synthesis" <wait.3>
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/echo EW 2* 70dur #1 656cp Done! <se.2>

/ac Innovation <wait.2>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/ac "Tricks of the Trade" <wait.3>
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Basic Synthesis"
/echo EW 2* 70dur #2 656cp Complete! <se.6>

Again, if you have too much craft, you will actually prematurely complete the item with this macro. So just add a line of...
/ac "Final Appraisal" <wait.3>
...before Delicate Syn.

It needs 2 pieces of HQ mat to guarantee HQ. However, if I manual craft with this rotation and tweak it on the spot, then I pretty much do not need any HQ mat. Perhaps just 1 piece of HQ mat to be safe.

Yeah, it's pretty stupid, isn't it? I'm a PIETY CRAFTER! And I'm not even using the latest Tsai tou Vounou HQ that I prepared... and I can still effectively macro everything in 6.05!

Crafting is, once again, in ultra-breeze mode at the moment! I don't think I need to update my crafting guide for now... People won't need it!

I'm just gonna continue using my spiritbonding gear set like this, and keep collecting free Grade 9/10 materia until I actually need them later.

[NanaWiloh]

As a casual crafter and some who cratfs with min req. This makes me a bit concerned.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

As a casual crafter and some who cratfs with min req. This makes me a bit concerned.

It's a little bit disheartening on how it's called "Master Recipe"! LMAOOOO!

[Avalionis]

Caimie is like one of the best, if not the most knowledgeable crafters i've met during my time playing FF XIV. i wouldn't be surprised if one day there's a crafter NPC or some emote in her name.

[NanaWiloh]

It's a little bit disheartening on how it's called "Master Recipe"! LMAOOOO!

Now I am really starting to believe someone goofed. 4 levels using just 9 hq leve turn ins???? Don't remember shb leve's jumping that far on 9. I was half way to 81 with bonus exp and fc buff but come on.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Caimie is like one of the best, if not the most knowledgeable crafters i've met during my time playing FF XIV. i wouldn't be surprised if one day there's a crafter NPC or some emote in her name.

Thanks for your kind words! But honestly, these recipes are so easy that I don't even proud solving them... I just found it so silly and ironic that my Piety melds worked without even using the strongest food and med (I was actually prepared to take off the Piety and overmeld with more Grade 7/8 on my left gear, and possible Grade 9...)! Well, perhaps if I had melded more Skill Speed, I could have crafted them faster!

Now I am really starting to believe someone goofed. 4 levels using just 9 hq leve turn ins???? Don't remember shb leve's jumping that far on 9. I was half way to 81 with bonus exp and fc buff but come on.

Well, that's why I mentioned on the other thread that leveling BSM/ARM/GSM is ~3/10 in difficulty, and leveling LTW/ALC is ~5/10...

[Mirikh]

By chance I had a lot of skillspeed materia in my inventory, so my rotations are super fast . Seriously, this is just brilliant and my thanks for this very helpful information.
I am talking to a number of crafters who just want to make themselves a few pieces for the savage raid and cannot figure out how to craft anything without spending millions on materia, or spending days farming scrip. I will refer them here.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

By chance I had a lot of skillspeed materia in my inventory, so my rotations are super fast . Seriously, this is just brilliant and my thanks for this very helpful information.
I am talking to a number of crafters who just want to make themselves a few pieces for the savage raid and cannot figure out how to craft anything without spending millions on materia, or spending days farming scrip. I will refer them here.

Well, it's "brilliant" on the sense that even people without pentamelds / expensive melds can still effectively macro everything! But it's also the PROBLEM as well!
We all know Master Recipes had become quite a joke since many years ago. But back then, we still need some decent melds to effectively macro them. Now you can randomly slap a few low grade materia from last expansion, and probably can still macro them! I think a lot of crafters are actually disappointed... Just when we thought it can't get any easier, they showed us that it actually CAN! LOL!

[Liam_Harper]

Agreed.

With decent melds (not fully maxed since I farmed the materia myself) I can 1-100% the new gear on NQ Chili Crab and nothing else, non-specialist. No need to care about HQ for the intermediate mats, new food, draughts or the rest. Just throw a macro together day 1 and churn out new gear. It's a little disappointing since Master Crafts are basically figured out right from the start.

Great rotations as always though

[Lilyth]

Just wanna say that I love your posts Caimie! ^-^
Been following your guides since I was a sprout back on ARR and it feels so nice to see you're still going on strong!

Thanks once again for sharing all this info with us!