HQ system revamp: Opportunity knocks?

[Arale]

HQ should increase all of it's stats in my opinion. It's higher quality, and it should reflect that appropriately, no matter what kind of gear it is.

[Lujan]

Yeah I want to see hq effect all stats what do u all think they going to do with plus 2 &3

[Venat]

Add +1 status to str,dex,int etc on HQ.

[Lizam]

I agree with with the boost to all stats instead of the current system.
For example, with the current system, if you play Conjurer, there is little to no benefit in having +3 armor unless you are soloing. In most circumstances, within a party, you don't need the extra defence/evasion etc as a healer/nuker.

However, I hope the HQ boost isn't too significant over the NQ such that players look down upon other players who can't afford to obtain HQ armor...

[Alise]

current +3 gear = +15% to def M.def and Eva.
I think it will be good enough to just +10% to all stats instead. (or 15% to all stats)

[MeowyWowie]

I agree that the boosts should be subtle so as not to completely overshadow NQ gear rendering them "noob" gear. But at the very least, the HQ gear must be worth purchasing or worth the effort to make over its NQ counterpart.

Whether it's all stats, beneficial stats, or a mix that get boosted I really don't mind, although I would prefer if all stats got a boost. But only enhancing Defense, M. Defense and Evasion on all armor in the game just doesn't cut it.

[Archadius]

I was kinda expecting this thread to be about how we have an opportunity (between now and 1.19) to make a ton of gil selling HQ stuff before the new HQ system hits haha

[Estellios]

I thought they were going to be revamping the stats of most gear as well as changing HQ gear stats so they are more useful? At least I remember something to that effect in an interview.

[MeowyWowie]

I thought they were going to be revamping the stats of most gear as well as changing HQ gear stats so they are more useful? At least I remember something to that effect in an interview.

Hmm I hope this is true, I haven't heard this myself. Any possibility of providing a link to the interview?

[Estellios]

I'll look around but with all the interviews going around it might take a bit!

edit:

I was probably thinking of this little tidbit in a post by Yoshi-P that Reinheart translated:

Post patch 1.20 planning to make changed to HQ
There are currently multiple HQ and it's hard to understand the effect so in order to change so there will be summarized to Normal Quality (NQ) and High Quality (HQ) and making sure to look at the stat difference between NQ and HQ.

I had figured the last part meant that they were planning to make the HQ/NQ difference more noticeable. The item revamps might have also been that colorant system where you prep the gear stats for specific functions. Sorry if this isn't anything spectacular ><;