Yasuko
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Ingenuity is used very very very often, The only way you don't really use it is to have a fully melded crafter with lucis and have your off-hand melded with at least 16 craftsmenship or somewhere around there netting you 485~490 craftsmenship. Regarding how to progress, it is solely knowledge of 1 of 2 things or both. One being you know how many Synths it takes to finish a craft, for example I know it takes 2 Piece by piece + 3 Careful Syth 2's to finish any 4* craft. Second being you know how much each synth gives you at certain level crafts, for example my CSII gives me 70 progress without ING2 on a 4* craft, but yet 76 progress under ING2.
If you need/want in-detail explanations of each crafting skill and how its normally used or something let me know or PMWith how your strategies are currently in the bot it often takes way too many steps to complete or goes about it in a very round-about way, but thankfully you let us do Macros
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most people meld offhands with 4 control, 15 craft, 3 cp. which in certain conditions that extra 3 cp comes in very handy. Removing the cp for 1 extra craft isnt viable imo.. Now if you do sb your own materia and want to waste countless IVs on melding, 16 craft would be ideal, but I do not see many people wasting IVs on a 5-7% meld chance.
As for the other topics.. regarding using rapid/pbp .. you'd have to take in the chance of it failing. Alot of recipes do start with pbp.. and if one of them fails, people normally reclaim.. Rapid synth having a base of 50(?) success, even with steady hand 2 increasing it slightly has a higher chance of hitting, but must take into account if rapid synth misses.. you will most likely want to reclaim and start over.. Alot of the 3 stars i've crafted end up ending with ingenuity 2, with 3 careful synth IIs.. innovation and ingenuity are good for fishing for a good/excellent orb but ingeunity 2 would be needed to finish it with 3 careful 2s, which is safer imo than using rapid synth... but pbp would be a good way to start the craft.. two of those after a steady hand, and the odds of missing it are very low..
Reclaim would be a must if you want to focus the craft off of using a rapid synth.. since in most cases if you miss it, you will want to start over.
From what I have noticed.. Rotation#1 @http://i.imgur.com/1MQpZwq.jpg has constantly given me roughly 90-92% HQ on the artisan offhands.
The ideal stats for fully melded artisans/offhand/lucis is 492 craft, 429 control. and something like 390(ish) CP including food. Alot of people debate over best meld for artisans body with either using control+2 or cp+2 for the last meld.. just some rotations out there for 3-4 star crafts literally require that much cp for a high % chance on quality... but I have sold countless bodies on AH with control+2 as the last meld over having the extra cp on it.
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