Amount of HQ items RIDONCULOUS!

[Shadex]

This is a product of the current gamer generation. They want everything easy, they want everything now, and they want everything everyone else has. Don't get it, throw yourself on the ground of the nearest forum and throw a temper tantrum until the Devs give in. The MMO genre has been rife with this mentality for almost a decade since... well we all know when. Trouble is with the saturation of the market, MMOs are fighting for players and often catering to the lowest common denominator is the best way to compete. Until crowd-funding leads to an insurgence of niche MMOs designed to cater to very specific mentalities we are going to have to put up with the PlaySkool era of MMOs for a while.

[Shyngo]

I don't care if everyone knows how to HQ 100%. The important thing is that those ppl worked hard studying and leveling multiple professions to achieve that. Also, Like some ppl said on this thread, RNG only works when it's not with you.
I know of some "Builders of the Realm" who can't 100% an iron ingot, and keep asking what are they doing wrong. We have our portion of RNG alredy with conditions, and they are more than enough to help you(or not).
Anyway, crafting is fine. just leave as it is, and Materias will be your RNG portion.

[Onji_T]

Right now the crafting system is a joke. It's just an unnecessary gimmick without utility and that's a shame. Why? Because crafted gear can't even come close to top tier gear. Two star foods are useless, unless you fail at math. And to beat a dead horse we can hq 100% of the time.

[Toddmounts69]

You can thank the blessing skill from 50 carp, i hq about 99% of all the items i make with that skill. NQ is the new rare item.

[OldGeezer]

Right now the crafting system is a joke. It's just an unnecessary gimmick without utility and that's a shame. Why? Because crafted gear can't even come close to top tier gear. Two star foods are useless, unless you fail at math. And to beat a dead horse we can hq 100% of the time.

But it helps greatly on the way to 50. HQ gear is just as good as dungeon gear. Plus it saves you money on repairing and melding your own gear. If HQ we're better than end-gaem gear, you'd lose the incentive for end-game content.

[Dannythm]

I liked having +1, +2 and +3 items.

[Ksenia]

tldr: hurr durr, kids these days, I turned in to my grandfather

Serious, I'm 40+ and it's not kids looking for an easy button. It's older and wiser people who value their time more than their money because they know they can get more money, they can't buy back 5 years of life.

As for too much HQ. I notice the OP is using all Grand company and dungeon loot.

HQ is identical to Aetherial and GC variants. It's not that there is too much HQ. It's that HQ is the only thing that matters in crafting. Think of NQ as the Allagan tokens you got when you really wanted an Aetherial Shield.

[Maxthunder]

Serious, I'm 40+ and it's not kids looking for an easy button. It's older and wiser people who value their time more than their money because they know they can get more money, they can't buy back 5 years of life.

As for too much HQ. I notice the OP is using all Grand company and dungeon loot.

HQ is identical to Aetherial and GC variants. It's not that there is too much HQ. It's that HQ is the only thing that matters in crafting. Think of NQ as the Allagan tokens you got when you really wanted an Aetherial Shield.

Either way this will destroy what little economy we have left. You cant have everything when you want it nor can you have the markets flooded with crafted hq gear or hq materials and expect the market not to crash. A MMO is a long term game so whats the point if you can get what you want when you want as fast as you want? There needs to be balance, currently there is no balance in gather nor is there a balance in crafting. Crafting and gathering hq gear/items needs to be a lot harder, this is what will keep the markets going and not crash, as it currently stands most markets for items and gear is flooded, this should not be. The less there is the better as players can make money and in return spend said money, without the markets constantly being flooded and everything dirt cheap.

[Naunet]

RNG is not difficulty; RNG is only frustration.

I got more than my fill of RNG in character progression to last my entire life when playing TERA, thank you.

[Genesiser]

This is one of those cases where the vocal minority can screw everything up for the majority.
So what if it is easy to HQ gear once you max a couple professions to max. I put a lot of time into raising my professions and I enjoy being able to HQ the gear for my dps classes when I get to the level required. It's already bad enough when mining the max base % of HQ is 15% chance and we don't need that involved with the crafting portion.