Guide:_How-To_HQ_all_the_things 1.22+

Guide:_How-To_HQ_all_the_things
This guide should be used as a reference point for HQing in FFXIV
This will be my method of crafting HQ. While others might do things differently, this will be a list of skills I use.
What we are looking for here are ways to get the best Quality by either increasing the Quality % or getting Great Success Careful synths.

Listed are the have-to-have's
What we are looking is 10-16 Careful synths To HQ from 0 Quality and 6-12 Careful synths to HQ from 500 Quality
I will be testing these skills after the patch and give a better # count for doing 51-60 synths.

lol before the change HQ was random, and was nice, now HQ is a joke, Everything is HQ, haha

Except now reading the patch note, most the craft ability's are being changed, if what I'm reading is correct.

look here
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/recipe?q=Obelisk+Head+&rtgt=0&classId=&rankId=#
if you dont HQ the new armor or weapon parts then you have to turn them back into mats loosing 3/4's the mats

Shouldn't take terribly long to figure out the most useful skills, but they look to have changed quite a bit. The patch notes said only 5 skills can be used during a synth though, so that have-to-have list is going to shrink considerably. Kudos for the effort you're expending on all these guides!

Hoping it meant they will stay as it was, where you set 10 and 5 are randomly set every step.

I hope so too. I didn't try it out before the server crash though, so we'll see tomorrow.

Guide updated Guide: How To HQ all the things

Values added
I started using
Byregot's Blessing (+100% Quality 3 steps)
Perfection (Careful Great Success 1 step)
Culmination (Great Success 1 step)
Master's Mend (+30 Great amount of Durability back)
Piece by Piece (+30% Progress -0 Durability)
This gave me 3 careful at 80-100 Quality, 2 Careful at 130-150 Quality and the ability to do 6-7 more Careful at 45-60 Quality capping HQ.

I thought High Return only works during unstable element?

fixed, thanks

Taking that into account I think I'll probably use the following:

Master’s Mend - Greatly restores durability.
Byregot’s Blessing - Increases quality by 100% for the next three steps.
Greater Calling - Ensures success of all types of synthesis for the next three steps.
Culmination - Ensures great success of all types of synthesis for the next step.
Perfection - Ensures great success of careful synthesis for the next step.

Also, can we still stack 3turn abilities with 1turn abilities?

nope, no more stacking that i can see.
I go with piece by piece to get the 0 durability loss and only need to pop 1 standard to get to 50 progress with -10 durability, then pop masters mend and now at 50 progress / 120 durability gettng as close to the 4/9 careful ratio as possible
and all careful from there.