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.