Random Crafting Question Thread I: HQ secret cracked!

[Taint]

Was coconut rusk, ended up losing like 20M+ on that bad luck run.

I know the rumor on Coconut rusk was it increased your chance for a HQ3, I'm like 1/54 using Coconut Rusk on cursed Haubys. Stopped using it and I'm back to 1/12 HQ rate.

[Diomer]

I know the rumor on Coconut rusk was it increased your chance for a HQ3, I'm like 1/54 using Coconut Rusk on cursed Haubys. Stopped using it and I'm back to 1/12 HQ rate.

That's really painful to know whether there's truth behind it or not.

[cdgreg]

Was coconut rusk, ended up losing like 20M+ on that bad luck run.

More anecdotal: lsmate has lost a ton using coconut rusks, will no longer touch them when attempting batches of cursed haubs.

I'm not sold on any food other than kitron macarons, those sure as shit floor your break rate. As for whether they increase skill up rate...im not sold on that.

@ramzii - thank you

[Ramzii]

Coconut Rusk is weird for me. When I tried it on staves, I went 0/12, then the next batch without it I went about 7/16.

But when I use it with synthing Cursed Dalmaticas, I often go ~2/15ish. I either get 2 HQs in a batch, or 0, usually alternating.

[Septimus]

Then there was the time when I was making Red Curry before the level cap was increased that I got two HQs (on the curries, not talking about buns) with a Coconut Rusk. Hurray for +0 results!

Random luck is random.

[Michelob]

Coconut Rusk is weird for me. When I tried it on staves, I went 0/12, then the next batch without it I went about 7/16.

You do realize that both 0/12 and 7/16 are fully normal rates for T2 synths, right? I have had times where I went 0/52 on staves and times where I went 16/22, neither times using Rusks. It's more likely that Rusks have no effect at all on HQ rates.

[Trix]

I have cooking on a mule at 96 + 1 but I don't use anymore since it's just easier to buy whatever but I want and I never really used it to make money. With the cap increase is there a new, really good attack food I can save a lot on by making or something to earn a decent amount of gil? Or is it just too expensive to level to the new cap versus any benefit...

[Buffy]

I have cooking on a mule at 96 + 1 but I don't use anymore since it's just easier to buy whatever but I want and I never really used it to make money. With the cap increase is there a new, really good attack food I can save a lot on by making or something to earn a decent amount of gil? Or is it just too expensive to level to the new cap versus any benefit...

Well Red Curry will take you to 101 and you probably wouldn't spend any more on it then if you were buying food off AH, which in turn would put you in range of increased HQ rate on both red curry buns and yellow curry, depending on other gear or skill.

[Ramzii]

You do realize that both 0/12 and 7/16 are fully normal rates for T2 synths, right? I have had times where I went 0/52 on staves and times where I went 16/22, neither times using Rusks. It's more likely that Rusks have no effect at all on HQ rates.

Yeah I stopped using them. It's a placebo effect, lol. Still had ~7% T1 HQ rate using it for a while, so I stopped.

@Cdgreg, I went and did staves with +1 only, and I still had about ~25% HQ rate. I think I had a session of 3/10, 2/8 and like 5/20.

[Buffy]

I'm bringing an alchemy and boneworking mule up, towards 100, both in the 70s at the moment. Is there anything I can check the level of that would be helpful?

[cdgreg]

I'm bringing an alchemy and boneworking mule up, towards 100, both in the 70s at the moment. Is there anything I can check the level of that would be helpful?

I started a new topic, we verified the stall being +5 through a fishing test:
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/112...tall-Only-Help!!

With that said, I still wouldn't mind seeing the can synth/cannot synth test

[dasva]

So I just realized it might be a good idea to figure out the caps of the sub crafts for the new recipes... but did so after I had decently lvld my subs making not be able to tell much useful... so is there another way aside from bulk crafting and finding tiers? Like will it show up in the subcrafts guild npcs?

[cdgreg]

Only way I can think of is have someone repeatedly attempt the synth while leveling a sub and tell us what level they were first allowed to craft the item. (and yes, I know that doesn't help you now lol)

[dasva]

Yeah that's what I thought which is why said it's too late for me lol. That method of course is really lame with multiple sub crafts

[AlexRuzhyo]

Oi, just came back to the game and I'm wondering if there are any new in-demand alchemy consumables/money makers introduced in the last year? (@76 alch)

Also, can someone give me the name of the skill-up rate increasing gear I heard about?

[TSFFXI]

I'm not aware of any, but crafting isn't going to be your main source of income -- especially at level 76.

There is only one piece of armor that affects the rate of skill ups. It's the Shaper Shawl and it's prohibitively expensive to get if you don't already have an ebisu fishing rod.

[cdgreg]

Oi, just came back to the game and I'm wondering if there are any new in-demand alchemy consumables/money makers introduced in the last year? (@76 alch)

Also, can someone give me the name of the skill-up rate increasing gear I heard about?

http://www.ffxiah.com/item/11009/shapers-shawl

[Fereydoon]

Is there any easier place to get Dragon Scales than Chocobo Shenanigans, or Fafhogg/KCNM?

[Alistaire]

Is there any easier place to get Dragon Scales than Chocobo Shenanigans, or Fafhogg/KCNM?

Going by otherwiki there's Ash Dragon (and wow, didn't know he was that long a respawn), also campaign unions getting killshot on Dee Xalmo the Grim...

[dasva]

I just bought on the ah. Several usually went up a day