Quote Originally Posted by Sibyll View Post
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I don't mind the concept of "crafting materials are hard to HQ, crafted equips/finished products are made easier with HQ items". That supports the concept of bulk crafting things like kirimu leather (which has no HQ-possible mats). You'd only need a minimum of 7 successful touches to get a 100% HQ on a 4 star if you had 2891 starting quality. Even then you're going to have some RNG because of CP constraints and rapid synthesis, but that's a lot more helpful than having to start with 1.1k max and requiring 10+ touches.

Sadly this only really applies to the crafted body pieces, all of which aren't exactly practical except for the bard's kirimu coat.