Inner Quiet?Follow

Control determines how much quality you add every time you use a Touch ability.

Inner Quiet keeps boosting this for each success (does not have to be chain successes) until you cancel the buff with Rumination.

The numbers are all just made up and don't matter, just like a moogle fart in a hurriance!

I watched too much Who's Line....

It actually doesn't raise by percentage. (Yes, I realize you made up the numbers.) It raises by a set number of points (that's probably influenced by the recipe difficulty).

If you try using Basic Touch in level 20+ gear and compared how much gets filled numerically in a level 1 recipe and a level 20ish recipe rather than by percentage, you'll find that the numbers are a lot closer. The level one recipes have a 312 Quality (or so) while the higher level ones have ~700 or ~1000 or ~1100. That's why if you're finding that you can regularly pump out 150+ quality on each Touch, you can pretty much go back to the lower level recipes and turn any remaining level 1 components into HQ subcomponents easily.

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Control determines how much Quality goes into the Quality Bar when you use a Touch ability. The next time you look at a tradeskill recipe, look at the bottom right. It'll give you a number. For a level 1 recipe, you should see something like 0/312. For a level 20 recipe, you'll see something more like 0/990 or something in that range.

So I take my level 30 weaver in his level 25-29 tradeskill clothes. My control is 178, and I take two recipes...let's say Dew Thread (level 24ish?) and Hempen Thread (level 1).

I use Basic Touch in Dew Thread, I will gain probably ~120 so Quality. But it needs something like ~1300 Quality to fill the bar. So that 120 is only filling < 10% of the quality bar.

I use Basic Touch with the same character in Hempen Thread and, for convenience sake in explanation, let's say I still get the same +~120 Quality. The Hempen Thread only requires 312 Quality to hit 100%, so now I've actually gained 38% of the Quality bar in one shot.

The next time you tradeskill, switch to the Battle Window. It displays your gains in numerical format, not percentage. (These are the same numbers you see floating away from you when you succeed.)

Every recipe has 3 fixed component values:
Durability: How many "adjustments" you can make to the recipe (synthesis & touch)
Progress: How much "completion" you need to finish the recipe (from synthesis)
Quality: How much bonus EXP & HQ chance you have for the recipe (from touch)

The more craftsmanship you have, the more progress each synthesis ability generates. Basic Synthesis is your basic progress button (duh!) for "100%" of your progress value. Other synthesis abilities (depending on particular DoH) progress by varying percentages of this base. These can be found in the tooltip for each ability. The level of the recipe has a MAJOR effect on how much progress you generate. To take the above example, Basic Progress on Dew Thread may generate 20 progress, but on Hempen Thread may generate 35 progress. (random numbers)

The more control you have, the more quality each touch ability generates. Basic Touch is your basic quality button for 100% of your quality value. Other touch abilities (depending on particular DoH) increase quality by varying percentages of this base. These can be found in the tooltip for each ability. The level of the recipe has a MINOR effect on how much quality you generate. To take the above example again, Basic Touch on Dew Thread may generate 50 quality, but on Hempen Thread may generate 55 quality. (random numbers) The other thing to note is that Quality is not a linear relationship with HQ chance (its exponential, afaik from eyeballing it). You can fill up 50% of the quality bar for a synth, and still only have 15% HQ chance.

The 3rd category of abilities is what Inner Quiet falls into - "others," which manipulate Durability, Control, CP etc. It increases Control for each successful Touch ability. So the more you "touch" the recipe, the better your next touch becomes.

That last sentence felt a little wrong ...

Speaking of Whose Line Is It Any Way?, guess what returns tomorrow night? Now excuse me while I do my happy dance.