ffiv-crafting-macros VS XivAlexander

If you want to make a lot of stuff as reliably HQ crafting macros are your ally. There are tons of sites with macros out there. You can use the TeamCraft site to plug in what you're making, your gear stats and then try out various macros to see if it works.

I talk about that a bit in my repository of crafting macros.

Only at max level, and then only for the really hard recipes. For the level 1 to max, you only need about a dozen macros to get up to the regular level 90 recipes.

I maintain a list here: https://github.com/WuphonsReach/ffiv-crafting-macros

The issue with this is that lag and ping even on a "good connection" isn't like what it is with the Japanese servers so it's way harder and sometimes has even been impossible to completely avoid drift. There are plugins that fix the issue but they're obviously not officially endorsed.

https://github.com/Soreepeong/XivAlexander found it. idk how it works tho

XIVAlexander (Ability Cooldown Manipulation): https://github.com/Soreepeong/XivAlexander

either way should work but just checking this https://github.com/Soreepeong/XivAlexander/releases might just be the easiest

Per the website: https://github.com/Soreepeong/XivAlexander

Try out xiv alexander, https://github.com/Soreepeong/XivAlexander. It'll essentially remove the animation lock which will give you 0 latency, but due to the way it works it is a ban-able mod so use it at your own risk. However, I've been using it since shb and I haven't heard anyone get banned over it either.