Arcueid
KC has an accuracy of +/- 1% usually it is spot on. I'm aware of some cases where it is 99 ingame and 98.9 in KC which gets cut to 98. I leave it to the experienced crafter to solve those mysteries, KC is never intended to replace crafters or crafting. It should aid those who already know their stuff.
arc
That is the way I look at if, it it gets me close, I'm there. For example, I'm sure you remember the, then deemed impossible, 7x84% amp (Zood). Well I revisited that with Evolver last week and Evolver came up w/ 4 new recipes ... and w/o looted mats which is much easier. So yes, it takes the drudgery out of the thousands of ciombinations and then ya gotta use the old noggin for the final tweaks.
Where I was goin tho was since you had a wisp of energy / time to do the upgrade, all I'm saying is that **if you so choose to do so** and wanna attack those algorythms again ... I'm here, ready, willing ... if perhaps (being 10 years older) a bit less able :).
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