PROTIP: acquiring your Artisan Spectacles Follow

2500 apiece.

You are my hero, thx man.

Thanks for the heads up. Guess I better make those other 13 CUL levels a priority.

I discovered that Great Strides stacks with Byrgot's Blessing. So if you are careful with your CP (need 81 left for this), you can do a Steady hand II, Hasty Touch X3, Great Strides, and Byregot's Blessing before finishing the synth for a HUGE final boost in quality.

Edited, Apr 7th 2014 12:13pm by Catwho

Oh yeah! Great strides is amazing! I should use it before byregots but im stoopid. Forgot to add that.

re-melded post 2.2? Plz 'splain? We have new melds? Hmm, I'll have to try your setup, looks promising.

I wish I could get back into crafting... I got so burned by what they did last time that I just don't care any more. I have all my crafts at 50 and all my AF's melded... I can make any 2 star in my sleep and could probably knock this stuff out with a little bit of effort... just don't care....

Just wanted to thank you personally for this. Got my Artisan Spectacles in no time building off this. THANK YOU!

Who do you turn in the Sauteed Coeurl to? Is there a quest to start it all?

I just hit level 50 Culinarian last night, so I'm about to embark on this endeavor. In addition to the specs, I have a lot of crafting ahead of me since I already have the Master Recipe books for WVR and LTH and want to get their new mainhand eventually.


I haven't tried coming up with my own rotation for the turn in items yet. But as I was reading back over the thread, I noticed this one. I don't know how much time you spent refining it, but I did notice that you have 4 durability consuming actions after each Waste Not. You could get away with only using 7 out of 8 Waste Not procs and be no worse off.

I'm having a hard time determining if you can get any tangible benefits from doing so and tweaking the above rotation. The 2nd waste not set could be re-ordered to Waste Not > Steady Hand II > Basic Touchx5. If it wasn't for the other Basic Touch left there, you could drop Steady Hand 2 to just Steady Hand. I'm wondering how much of a difference Ingenuity II makes over Ingenuity for the Careful Synthesis II. If it doesn't shave one Careful Synthesis II from the rotation, it's probably a waste of CP. Even if it does shave one step, if the limiting factor is CP and not durability, it wouldn't make sense to change Ingenuity to Ingenuity II.

Because the recipe level is so high, it's probably worth changing Innovation to Ingenuity, provided you have the 8 CP to spare.

I am currently working on my Armorers Master tool (I was able to get my blacksmiths faster than I expected).

My method has been to go with Reclaim, and Piece by piece.

I go with Comfort Zone, Reclaim, Inner Quiet, Waste Not II, and then spam Hasty Touch until I get to 50 durability left (always using Tricks of the trade when available).
@50 Durability, I trigger Manipulation, Comfort Zone, and Waste Not (II if I have the CP).
Once I have 25+ CP, I then trigger Piece by piece 3x (this will give 138, 92, and 62 progress), Then Careful Synthesis 2x later, I will be one action from completion.
(Still triggering Tricks of the trade whenever available).

Then I get to the interesting part. If I have over 100 CP at this point (which is pretty much a guaranteed HQ) I will go with Steady Hand II. I then use Hasty Touch until I get to 3 actions from complete (this is >20<35). I then break down the final set of actions based on the following:
>240 Full Reset (Manipulation, Comfort Zone, and Waste Not (II if I have the CP))
>135 Great Strides
>121 Innovation
>103 Advanced Touch
>87 Great Strides (if it is not up)
>73 Innovation (If it is not up)
<74 Hasty Touch
<56 Cry... (still use Hasty Touch)

After I go through that sliding scale of CP, I should be @15-20 Durability remaining. At this point, I will typically still have 56 CP left. Which is where I will I will use Great Strides, and Byregots Blessing.

If I do not have higher than an 81% chance of HQ, I will blow up the synth and take my chances with the Reclaim odds, than deal with an untradable NQ item. Other than the crystal burn, the strat has treated me well, and allows me a bit of control over the RNG (since, you can typically tell when a synth is going to burn you, so, with reclaim up, I ussually just fry that synth, and go again... Thereby not getting upset at bad RNG).

After trying to analyze a couple different rotations posted by people with better craftsmanship, control and CP than me, I finally decided to bite the bullet and just give Spicy Tomato Relish a try.

My stats were 348 Craftsmanship, 332 Control and 345 CP (379 with NQ Bouillabaisse). It's basically the stats needed to (100% HQ 2 Star stuff without Comfort Zone (Alchemy is the only DoH I don't have leveled).

I was able to get HQ Dzemael Tomatoes from the MB and made my own HQ Table Salt and HQ Dark Vinegar. I couldn't find any HQ Cinnamon on the MB, so I stuck with NQ, which cost me about 101 quality. So I was starting with 2,527 out of 5,257 quality.

Instead of trying to follow a rotation, I just did the usual SH2 + Hasty Touch while using Tricks of the Trade whenever I got a Good proc with the goal of using Ingenuity II + Great Strides + Byregot's Blessing at the end. I was surprised at how consistently I was able to HQ the recipe even with relying on the much hated RNG. Out of 10 tries, only once did I not reach 100% quality. And that one attempt, I got up to 89% and still got the HQ. I didn't bother with Waste Not at all. I just used Master's Mend II when I hit 20/80 durability.

The one attempt where I only got up to 89%, I believe I only reached 7 stacks of Inner Quiet (well, the number 7 on the IQ icon, since a 1 doesn't actually give you a boost to control). Whenever I got up to 8 stacks, the final combination of Ing2 + GS + BB was enough to push me up to 100% quality.

I actually have those but I guess I'm one of the small minority who actually likes the Weaver hat and most of the crafter AF hats.

I just don't see why it's Unique at all when it's Untradeable. Maybe I'm somehow missing the advantage I would gain by having multiple glasses other than glamoring them.