Does 1% mean 1% now???

[aisustrong]

i got a 1% hq way back in like 2.3something
was like level 2 armorer

[chidarake]

I just quick synthed 1000 leatherworkers hats (guess what for)

I got around 20 or so hq from pure nq mats and a simple ingen 2 cs2 x2 synth.

[LineageRazor]

One poster mentioned Quick Synthesis. Quick Synthesis doesn't work by the same rules as regular synthesis; the odds of success, failure, and HQ are based on an unknown formula derived from your crafting stats. It didn't used to be this way, but several patches ago (I think patch 2.1???) SE changed Quick Synthesis so that odds of HQ or failure are determined by your stats.

For folks talking about regular synthesis, while I never got a HQ result on a 1% synth until fairly recently, I also very rarely crafted for zero quality without using Quick Synthesis, so I don't have enough of a pool of samples to go by. That said, RNG is RNG; I doubt that they would have put 1% as the minimum and 98% as the (sub-100%) maximum without those numbers meaning anything...

By the same token, there's plenty of crafters who will swear by their souls that all the numbers are lies anyway (80% success? More like 20% success!) so believe what you like.

[StouterTaru]

For folks talking about regular synthesis, while I never got a HQ result on a 1% synth until fairly recently, I also very rarely crafted for zero quality without using Quick Synthesis, so I don't have enough of a pool of samples to go by. That said, RNG is RNG; I doubt that they would have put 1% as the minimum and 98% as the (sub-100%) maximum without those numbers meaning anything...

I have tens of thousands of synths done this way with 0 quality, including over a thousand in the last few weeks before 2.5. I never noticed a HQ on any of them until 2.5

[Sadana]

Me too... Was mindlessly making stuff for militia turn ins (no touch actions) and was caught by surprise by a few HQ mats. o.o

[Ymal]

I got an HQ Calibrated Gold Cog at 0 quality...
Just because I wanted them NQ for supra... (I already had master book that requires the HQ ones)
So that costed me an extra 60k gil for the Fieldcraft III Demis....
RNG trolling as always.

I've read about this happening to others as well and even if the risk of this happening is sooo small, since then when I manage to oneshot 2HQ I will do 2 or 3NQ on purpose because this happening would just be the end of me.