4 star culinarian recipe discrepancy.

[Archadius]

The reason is because SE was clever with the way they made HQ ingredients impact the starting quality on a recipe. If the recipe's "primary ingredients" are HQ, you get a bigger boost to quality at the start.

In this particular case, the coffee beans and the water are the main ingredients, and all 3 of those cannot bq HQ, so the starting quality is very lowl.

It's the same thing as making say... A Rose Gold Nugget (3 Gold Ore, 1 Copper Ore). If you add 1 HQ Gold, you get like 250 bonus quality, but if you add 1 HQ Copper, you get under 10 bonus quality. Why? Because Gold is the main ingredient, not copper.

I know it sucks, but it actually makes sense so I highly doubt this particular instance is a bug.

[DarkmoonVael]

The reason is because SE was clever with the way they made HQ ingredients impact the starting quality on a recipe. If the recipe's "primary ingredients" are HQ, you get a bigger boost to quality at the start.

In this particular case, the coffee beans and the water are the main ingredients, and all 3 of those cannot bq HQ, so the starting quality is very lowl.

It's the same thing as making say... A Rose Gold Nugget (3 Gold Ore, 1 Copper Ore). If you add 1 HQ Gold, you get like 250 bonus quality, but if you add 1 HQ Copper, you get under 10 bonus quality. Why? Because Gold is the main ingredient, not copper.

I know it sucks, but it actually makes sense so I highly doubt this particular instance is a bug.

I can kind of see the point you are trying to make here, however it doesnt follow through to say the bacon broth, where the primary ingredients are also not available in HQ (Smoked Bacon and Xelphatol Spring Water) yet the starting possible quality is significantly higher than the starting quality of the Triple Cream Coffee. Also, these are all an artifical construct by someone, so saying that, there has to be some logic behind the ingredient choices in these recipes, as well as all the factors in the starting quality of the recipes. It still makes very little devolpment sense to have extremely similar recipes have such a vast difference in starting quality. Take the new healer body and leg pieces, would it make sense for one to be able to start at 2000 quality and the other to start at 200?

Edit: also, all previous culinarian recipes were balanced more-or-less where if you used all HQ starting ingredients where possible, they would start with a similar range of quality. This one recipe seems to be an anomaly in regards to how SE have constructed the previous recipe balance for culinarian, which is why i have brought this up in the first place