Looking to try Hamlet Defense

[REDace0]

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.

[Vindrax]

I also have Tricks of Trade from ALC level 30, which gives an additional 20% and could set bold endeavor from LTW 30 which guarentees success for the next action with a rapid. That would be 6 steps, but not quite sure if that'll get it quite to 100%.

[REDace0]

I also have Tricks of Trade from ALC level 30, which gives an additional 20% and could set bold endeavor from LTW 30 which guarentees success for the next action with a rapid. That would be 6 steps, but not quite sure if that'll get it quite to 100%.

A plain success on a rapid is going to be no more than 20% in my experience. It's great when going for HQ with something like Greater Calling (guarantees 48-60% total progress with 0 durability loss and only takes one slot). So that'll be Culmination + Rapid (30-40) + Grand Design (20) + Tricks of the Trade (20) = 70-80% in 4 steps. Bold Endeavor + Rapid won't quite finish it. Getting ARM45 or GSM45 would let you 5-step from that. I think you're going to be sitting at 7-steps without some other killer ability, but that's not a huge problem if you're one of the two DoHs doing Attack Up. Only the Defense Up person really needs to be 4 or 5 step, because if a wave hits while Defense Up is down it takes full-time curing from one WHM to keep the middle Front Line Militia Archer up.