Welch and Item Creation

[ValDrake]

What exactly does she do to the process?

[jclosed]

She unlocks the item category you will be able to create. The more you do for her, the more types of creation stuff becomes available.

[ValDrake]

Hmm, my bad for lackluster phrasing. Let me clarify, what does the Welch Proc during Item Creation actually do? I didn't notice any maxed out Factors and maybe noticed at least 3 factors on the resulting item?

[orthostatic]

I've only seen her little proc a couple of times, and it's always on garbage like meteorite, never on philosopher stones. Also have no idea what her effect is. If I had to guess, I'd assume she acts as a 5-star support item for whatever craft she showed her face to.

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

For those starting on her quest line, when making stuff and you get Holey Armor - do keep 5 of them and never sell them, you will thank me later lol

[Xengre]

Originally posted by ValDrake:

Hmm, my bad for lackluster phrasing. Let me clarify, what does the Welch Proc during Item Creation actually do? I didn't notice any maxed out Factors and maybe noticed at least 3 factors on the resulting item?

No idea, but it is unnecessary to fish for her. Just craft the right stuff, especially certain pawn or other fixed value pieces, and you will get your target stats usually. The rest is RNG and higher quality materia;s = better results.

Also be aware some stats don't stack or have caps like accessory factor boost % caps at 60% (same for armor and weapon). In addition, you can't do something like Armor % Boost on armor + 1 accessory boost & weapon boost % on that armor and expect that armor boost to boost those two towards the cap sparing you a slot. The armor boost will not work on those. In short, this literally mandates that armor BiS will always be 2x weapon boost % and 2x accessory boost % factors and there is, literally, no case ever of this not being true even in the most niche extreme. This also means its very easy to get the 60% caps for these two so you don't have to fish for high % of those factors, just high enough to stack to 60% cap when added together for each type. This also means that armor boost % factor is the worst factor in the entire game as it has no case where you would want to use it, ever.

[Elrodeus]

I actually didn't do much crafting in the game. I didn't even unlock all the crafting options from the Welch quest. If you're not a fan of crafting you can beat the main story without crafting any thing and just using weapons and items you find or purchase.

If however, you're planning on doing post game content crafting will likely be a necessity. I didn't do any of the post game content on my first playthrough (saving it for my second playthrough) but it's very likely required to get through the extra bosses.