o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[NoctisUmbra]

exactly. one of the biggest complaints i heard was about doing nothing more than spamming standard. well now it becomes even more useless to do anything more than standard. bold was rendered useless because finish quality would no longer matter.

Actually, like I just said, they are just as important for making HQ ingredients.

However, only "some ingredients" will be made by crafters, and they haven't made it clear what's the processed involved in making these ingredients HQ, or if the process involves yet again HQ material.

Yoshi clearly stated that the HQ ingredients > HQ product 100% rule is only effective for final products. Making HQ mats will be at least as difficult as they are now.

[MariyaShidou]

Actually, like I just said, they are just as important for making HQ ingredients.

They never said how do you make HQ ingredients.

[NoctisUmbra]

They never said how do you make HQ ingredients.

Basically, in order to synthesize an HQ final item, HQ versions of every ingredient must be used. Players are guaranteed to synthesize HQ items if all the ingredients used are HQ. However, it will be very difficult to obtain HQ versions of all ingredients.

2. HQ Revamp
We are planning on implementing the HQ revamp in patch 1.20. Following the release of patch 1.19, the current specs for HQ items will remain in place, so current HQ items will not be affected. Until Patch 1.20 is released, the current specs for HQ items will be used. Also, in the new specs, HQ items will only be created if every ingredient used is HQ. Obtaining HQ versions of the ingredients will require a mix of luck and skill. (We want to make sure that you will not experience a sense of futility when your synthesized item turns into NQ at the last moment.)

All it takes it to read between the lines in this paragraph to realize that the 100% HQ rule is not in effect for crafting of ingredients.

How difficult will it be? We shall see. There is nothing pointing out that you can make HQ ingredients with 100% success though.