Rank 5 Load time

Hmm...We're attempting it now. We make r6 IS crystals while I'm in transform, so I'm getting ice mastery up a few ranks and grabbing some more int. If you don't even need the skill to r5, that's....very confusing kinda. I'll post once we test it for certainty (both with and without r5 of the skill) to post if the crystal and/or the skill have to be r5. It's a little misleading with a quick glance at the chart.

How do the asterisks point to needing an r5 of the crystal though? I thought it was only to mention it's the load time of the crystal and not the production time of creating the crystal.

Thank you for the quick info.