Quote Originally Posted by Aeyis View Post
An average of 3 would give 60+75 materials each week, which would be enough for 6/6.5 refined materials, out of 9. That's in between 3:2 and 4:3. And the real catch is that you can only reach this max if you aim to gather and create a single material type.
So you'd be short by a fair amount if you get average or less drops.

As for buying the HQ mats, as someone else pointed out in the japanese thread (and others have in previous english threads), the HQ turn is too costly since it takes 3 crafting scrips.
They may not be the most efficient use of crafting scrips, but some people need those HQ mats to get the HQ materials to HQ these crafts. Not everyone has the right stats or skills to make these with NQ base materials. 3 tokens is much more efficient then making a NQ item even once as it costs you 5 tokens for a HQ or 6 to remake a NQ ring. This is including gathering tokens.

The other side of it is gil. You can sell a stack of 10 ooids for 3-5mil on my server, and you can buy all 6 needed HQ items for 2.4-3mil. So 1 gathering token and 3 red crafting scrips to get mats for the HQ items and make some extra gil at the same time. If your rotation/gear or RNG luck is not that good, this is a decent option.