haha yeah requires alot but i am just a part time compounder so i sell books to my friend or trade them in for eqs made but sometimes i wanna try this and that and so I compound stacking almost 2 of kind in hawaii then ends up to finish first is the golden qi pao recipe XD prolly 86% success on that luckily XD yes the gloves are quite the work too shares the same mats and base with those bracers (which u might need in other compounding so either is okay but rather stick to the shortcut XD) for a year of compounding i will say to you that ive only used less than 3 books in my compound thats cuz i dun have faith on what im compounding XD