Quote Originally Posted by moatcarp View Post
1 - right now you need HQ materials to create HQ+3 item (assuming rank 50 DoH & rank 50ish synth), correct?

2 - with your proposal a rank 50 DoH would be able to generate a HQ+3 rank 50ish synth by grinding out NQ mats into NQ end goods and then combining the NQ end goods into HQ end goods, correct?

3 - NQ materials are largely worthless (caveat: materials you need to farm for, NM drops, etc).

Therefore your proposal reduces the need to obtain HQ materials in order to obtain top-end gear.
These are all covered by my explanation, though.

You are essentially saying that people would rather spend more money and more time synthing from NQ than they would from HQ.

In this system, I would pay 100k for a +3 log before I would pay 120k for 64 NQ logs. Why? Because it would take 64 NQ logs to get the equivalent of a +3 log. I can save myself many, many hours of time and frustration by just buying the +3 log at the inflated price, which, you will notice, is more than the +3 is worth now.

Seriously, I already covered this a couple times over in my responses to you. HQ materials will go up in this system. They will be just as in demand as they are now, except they'll most likely be worth even more since they become a better alternative than endlessly grinding materials.