[dev1016] Post 1.20 HQ Crafting

[Aeyis]

No, this is how it goes:

Hmm, I want to make a HQ doublet. Oh, wait, I'm not 20 ranks above the recipe, so I can't. I'll just go buy it from the wards instead.


You forget that NQ gear has cheaper materials than HQ gear and this is key. Cheapness of materials is what will keep NQ gear competitive. The flaw with the current system is that a low rank crafter cannot compete with a high rank crafter because they turn the same materials into different products.

We playing the same game here? I'm skilling on recipes 7 ranks above my own and i can get a +1 off those fairly easily..
For a +2 or even +3 youd need about +10 ranks or such anything else is just bonus.

Also the most valuable HQ items right now arent items you could possible be +10 ranks of, let alone +20 and people seem to HQ those often enough...

Nobody said HQ will be more difficult to make. Everything points towards HQ synths being exactly as difficult as NQ synths, so your argument is completely invalid. Also, being 20, 30, pick your high number, ranks above an item will make your HQ rate skyrocket under the current system just as it did in FFXI. It is a problem.

So if you dont actually have experience crafting HQ items, why are you posting your opinion so adamantly here?

And i do hope you dont consider a +1 ''HQ'' given that ive just posted an example on getting regular +1's on stuff +7 ranks on me >.>