Quote Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE View Post
Who sits there and individually crafts each step with the hope that 'good quality' comes up during the quality part of the craft, which will save ONE STEP of the entire manual craft, when you can just press a macro and do something else for the 30-45 seconds the craft takes.

For macro crafting, its a complete downgrade, and if you are manually craafting, you already putting yourself at such a stupid disadvantage to other crafters.

On the note of GATHERING relics, completely off the topic of the CRAFTER relics which the thread is about, they are honestly fine, if you are somebody who does collectables they are actually worth using.
I like to take my time and do it manually, and yes I do use crafting macros on the easier crafts, but when crafting things that are hard to do I take my time and do it manually step by step to make sure I can squeeze out every bonus possible, why would folks pass over the potential to finish a craft earlier if you get great or excellent condition bonus? Rushing your crafts doesn't make it better it shows how impatient one is, and besides it took me a few times on some pieces before I HQed a few pieces from the current crafting and gathering set.
*side note* the Crystalline tool's passive is noticeable when you are trying to HQ an item or when finishing up a craft...So don't let the loss of materia slots fool you, you are trading in material slots for a bonus when used at the right time can shorten steps , that is something to think about. Also, brute forcing a craft is not always the way to go.

There is a US infantry saying: slow is steady, steady is smooth, smooth is fast. take time to think about that saying and you might understand what I am getting at...