Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
Crafters dont need good gear. You just need to spam standard and run in circles.
Actually if you're spamming standard you need good gear to have a decent success rate. The recipes are hard. Most people instead guarantee most or all of their progress via abilities, rather than rely on their gear. There's the much-desired "4-step" using two 30% progress and two 20% progress abilities, but in practice taking 5 or 6 steps isn't a big problem. You want to try and be consistent though. You definitely don't want to be 30% away from completion and spamming standard, when it suddenly goes unstable, and you're the only one doing Defense Up.

As 50WVR, you'll definitely want to use Grand Design and Culmination + Rapid. For the other 50% your easiest option would be Maker's Muse + Standard. That will put you at 7 steps, but it's a start.