[dev1237] Revamping High-Quality Items

[Rydin]

Crafting just changes somewhat....

Hand of the Gods is not quite as important (You can argue this but I don't use HotG when making mats. If you're well geared, durability is never really an issue, and HotG lowers your success rate, which is bad for careful synths)
Masterpiece is a little more important

Rapid synthesis is a little less important
Immersion is a little more important

Assemble and Pride of Labor become just for emergencies (About to fail synth)
Clean Slate becomes your best friend

Unless the crafting abilities get an overhaul

You are 100% correct, it removes the skill out of crafting. Instead of focusing on trying to maintain quality and durability, your only focus is use HQ materials.. and spam standard so you are given 50% chance. If you use NQ items.. dont waste your time trying to get that 10% chance of HQ... your better off farming hq materials. This is a major step backwards for the crafting system.

Why would you spam standard for a 50% chance when the right abilities can give you a 100% chance?

Or using NQ mates maybe you could use your abilities and work up to a 25% chance of HQ.
Which, Ironically enough, is still leaps and bounds better than the HQ rates we have now

[AuctionGirl]

Why would you spam standard for a 50% chance when the right abilities can give you a 100% chance?

What I am meaning by this.. is dont even bother trying to HQ unless you have all HQ materials. If you waste 10 minutes trying to get that extra 50% in a chance of HQ, you could have had 5 HQ's in that time.

This takes skill (reduces skill) out of the equation, You are now forced to find HQ ingredients for any real chance of HQ... I made a thread describing this... It shouldnt be based on the materials you use as much as the ending quality.

[TheVedis]

What I am meaning by this.. is dont even bother trying to HQ unless you have all HQ materials. If you waste 10 minutes trying to get that extra 50% in a chance of HQ, you could have had 5 HQ's in that time.

This takes skill (reduces skill) out of the equation, You are now forced to find HQ ingredients for any real chance of HQ... I made a thread describing this... It shouldnt be based on the materials you use as much as the ending quality.

so in other words

we get the same chance to hq NQ mats
and we get an increased chance to hq with hq mats

so i see no problem at all with this, you shouldnt be able to easily hq with normal materials regardless of what you do, be thankful for the 10% chance they are offering if you get good quality(which is probly more then we can get now with all nq mats)

[Rydin]

What I am meaning by this.. is dont even bother trying to HQ unless you have all HQ materials. If you waste 10 minutes trying to get that extra 50% in a chance of HQ, you could have had 5 HQ's in that time.

This takes skill (reduces skill) out of the equation, You are now forced to find HQ ingredients for any real chance of HQ... I made a thread describing this... It shouldnt be based on the materials you use as much as the ending quality.

that completely hinges on the availability of HQ mats though

Also... being able to use abilities to push NQ mats HQ rate up to 20+% is worth doing to me....
But I guess thats a personal decision