Hello all, I am a returning player that is incredibly lost with all the changes to crafting abilities. This has probably been asked a ton but I couldn't find a direct answer so here is my situation. During Stormblood I put my nose to the grindstone and leveled all crafts and gathering up to 70, and unsubbed immediately after because it was such a drain plugging away day after day and when I made it to max level, when I could finally start making my fancy gear, I quit! 
It was too much and I burned out completely and left the game for over a year.
So I'm back
I saw there's some very good changes to crafts but I'm also pretty lost for a rotation now. I had a very simple rotation that relied heavily on steady hand 2 and hasty touches, and now hasty touches are basically unusable now without the RNG protection it used to have. I have white 70 NQ vendor gear with very very low CP and craftsmanship and the gear that's the next step up on the board is astronomically priced and I am a very poor elezen so that's out of the question. I really love the crafting in this game more than any other mmo but I also don't want to keep wasting and wasting all my mats!
Every rotation I've found online requires several hundred more CP than I have at the moment, so I'm really at a loss what to do now. I've never used a macro (every one I've tried in the past failed for various reasons) In Stormblood had no problem completing custom deliveries as long as I HQ'ed the mats beforehand, but now that is very much not the case. The touches are sucking up so much CP I come nowhere close to finishing the craft. I cannot afford to buy crafting gear/materia and I keep getting removed from guilds for not logging in because I unsub now and then so I don't know any crafters to whip me up some shiny new gears.
I've been directed to teamcraft and I attempted to use the rotation solver, but it also comes no where near completion (granted they had a disclaimer so that's an expected result I guess?) plus it's adding abilities I don't even have at 70 so I'm not sure if this is the best plan. Every longform guide I've found are either made for people that are geared BIS and melded to the gills with mountains of CP or are 5 years out of date and mentioning removed skills. Can anyone direct me to a fresh 70 extremely basic rotation so I have something to build on/get used to the rhythm of crafting again? My craftsmanship is 1060, control 942, CP 394, also any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.
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It was too much and I burned out completely and left the game for over a year.So I'm back
I saw there's some very good changes to crafts but I'm also pretty lost for a rotation now. I had a very simple rotation that relied heavily on steady hand 2 and hasty touches, and now hasty touches are basically unusable now without the RNG protection it used to have. I have white 70 NQ vendor gear with very very low CP and craftsmanship and the gear that's the next step up on the board is astronomically priced and I am a very poor elezen so that's out of the question. I really love the crafting in this game more than any other mmo but I also don't want to keep wasting and wasting all my mats!Every rotation I've found online requires several hundred more CP than I have at the moment, so I'm really at a loss what to do now. I've never used a macro (every one I've tried in the past failed for various reasons) In Stormblood had no problem completing custom deliveries as long as I HQ'ed the mats beforehand, but now that is very much not the case. The touches are sucking up so much CP I come nowhere close to finishing the craft. I cannot afford to buy crafting gear/materia and I keep getting removed from guilds for not logging in because I unsub now and then so I don't know any crafters to whip me up some shiny new gears.
I've been directed to teamcraft and I attempted to use the rotation solver, but it also comes no where near completion (granted they had a disclaimer so that's an expected result I guess?) plus it's adding abilities I don't even have at 70 so I'm not sure if this is the best plan. Every longform guide I've found are either made for people that are geared BIS and melded to the gills with mountains of CP or are 5 years out of date and mentioning removed skills. Can anyone direct me to a fresh 70 extremely basic rotation so I have something to build on/get used to the rhythm of crafting again? My craftsmanship is 1060, control 942, CP 394, also any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.
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