Originally Posted by
Nyarlko
Depending on the recipe (not jacket tho,) you could also be looking at something that happened to get bumped up a tier by Escutcheons, plus there was the change to how HQ+ stat works, etc. so there may be factors that you're not accounting for. Also of note, on Asura, Legion mats have all dropped in price significantly so the projected costs per HQ is roughly 25%-40% what it was a year ago.
Good example would be the ABJ legs recipes since I think they're all 93cap w/o subcrafts. Pre-shields, they were T1 but now are potentially T2. Even if mat prices had held up, that means that even with an uncompleted shield, you'd quadruple your income off the same price for mats, which means most sellers are going to be more willing to lower their asking prices. Factor in the drop in mat prices too and you get a pretty small fraction left over compared to earlier.