So I’m looking at what it would take for me to guarantee max rank 3 enchants and max rank 5 636 crafted pieces and it looks like you need to have to use full rank 3 materials, be fully specialized into the profession tree/node of the type of craft you’re making, have full blue(purple item if available) crafting tool/accessories and either use concentration or a epic +40 skill crafting reagent.
Given you can only use so much concentration in a given amount of time, and +40 skill finishing reagents are BoP, so you can’t buy them of the AH, I take it Blizzard doesn’t want us to be able to make as many max rank crafts on demand?
They want you to test how good the new ingenuity system works out since you can get about 90% of your concentration back when specialized into ingenuity stuff.
I’m making R 3 Echants and flasks with R 2 materials but I have to use Concentration. I was able to make some R 5 equipment with R 3 but it gets wonky when people need missives.
Things will probably be different with a full set of Blue Profession Tools and few more knowledge points.
If you have everything maxxed, you should be able to churn out r3s.
There seems to be some variation by profession, but it appears there is always a way to guarantee max rank products.
Enchanting and Alchemy seem to be the closest margins by being 2 skill over requirement when you have everything maxed out with all blue profession gear, but it is possible without Concentration or a +skill Finishing Reagent.
You’re probably right, I think I forgot to factor in the little +5/10 skill bonus points you get when putting points into a node.