Quote Originally Posted by lordoftheapes79 View Post
In earlier steps its better because it gets you a higher chance of excellent or outstanding progress, which reduces the quantities needed for the next step by 1/3 and 2/3 respectively. It's not all that important on the final step since nothing seems to be HQ.
That is NOT true.

I just got 100 / 100 (outstanding condition) from using all NQ mats for an Enterprise forecastle.

The XXX/100 condition increases are totally random each time you put in materials and hq materials do not give increased chance of a condition increase.