Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post
They seem plenty hard to me. I made three attempts at one and didn't even come close to getting enough collectability to return them, let alone reaching the max tier. I have somewhat conservative overmelds because I didn't want to spend hours farming scrips to buy VII and VIII materia, but I can trivially craft HQ three-star items starting from NQ materials. I'll just stick to farming scrips with the normal Lv80 items for now and consider attempting the expert ones again when the rewards are known.
Even people in Discord who succeeded in making one said it was down to them just getting extremely lucky. Its coming down to abusing Hasty Touch and Tricks of the Trade again.