DoH levellng with 6.0 changes

[MistakeNot]

Levelling a crafter depends a lot on HQ mats, Ive read the liveletter and I have a friend who is not sure what this means, as they are still working on their crafters.

Will that make crafting HQ items harder?

As we all know, the more hq mats for an item, the better your chance to hq the finished item.

So, anyone got anything on this? Im kinda confused.

I don't know what they said in the liveletter, but I do know that currently levelling a crafter does not depend at all on HQ mats.

If you have decent gear and know what you are doing you can easily craft most items from NQ materials and get an HQ result.
To earn maximum amount of XP per item crafted you are best off starting with NQ materials since the amount of XP you get depend on how much you increased the quality of the item while crafting, not on what the endresult is.

[Deceptus]

To earn maximum amount of XP per item crafted you are best off starting with NQ materials since the amount of XP you get depend on how much you increased the quality of the item while crafting, not on what the endresult is.

That's not accurate at all.

You got the same exp regardless as long as the end result was HQ.

[MistakeNot]

That's not accurate at all.

You got the same exp regardless as long as the end result was HQ.

No, you don't. You get exp based on how much you improved quality, so getting 100% quality when starting with NQ materials will give more exp than getting 100% quality when starting with HQ materials.

[TaleraRistain]

That's not accurate at all.

You got the same exp regardless as long as the end result was HQ.

I just happened to be crafting on my alt tonight and tried this out. HQ Adamantite Nugget with HQ materials was 149,696 and with NQ materials was 172,727. MistakeNot is right.

[VelKallor]

I don't know what they said in the liveletter, but I do know that currently levelling a crafter does not depend at all on HQ mats.

There are a few crafter quests that require an hq product to complete.

[Krotoan]

There are a few crafter quests that require an hq product to complete.

I think the point being that checkpoints in story do not equate to leveling.

You can progress your XP without HQ mats/crafts quite easily. HQ crafting is expedient and necessary for some quests, but not necessary to progress to 80. Once you have overleveled a crafting class past the HQ quest, it's trivial to HQ something of a lower level without HQ mats.

Also.. I expect there will be systems/skills implemented to facilitate crafting HQ at relevant level without HQ mats.

[MistakeNot]

There are a few crafter quests that require an hq product to complete.

There are many crafter quests that require you to craft an HQ product, but they can all be done starting with NQ materials. Easily so if your gear is up to date.
It is only 4-star and Expert recipes that can be troublesome, and those are not required for any of the normal crafter quests.

[Illmaeran]

If I'm understanding what they said correctly, the non-HQ thing applies only to raw ingredients such as ore and skins. You can then craft HQ processed materials to use when crafting a finished item. I've been trying to figure out why they decided to do this since "saving inventory space" doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. I'm willing to bet that they're hoping to combat gathering bots somehow by making this change as we won't "need" to buy huge stacks of HQ raw materials to reliably craft that quest item we need to reliably HQ.

[Sotaris]

While this is of course relevant for Levequests, the bonus exp for the craft itself is not given for making HQ items but for filling up the quality gauge with your actions. By using all HQ materials you are basically lowering the amount of exp you can possibly get for a single craft by half.

I guess a close comparision would be collectibles.

That's not accurate at all.

You got the same exp regardless as long as the end result was HQ.

This is incorrect.

[Steelbreaker25]

If I'm understanding what they said correctly, the non-HQ thing applies only to raw ingredients such as ore and skins. You can then craft HQ processed materials to use when crafting a finished item. I've been trying to figure out why they decided to do this since "saving inventory space" doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. I'm willing to bet that they're hoping to combat gathering bots somehow by making this change as we won't "need" to buy huge stacks of HQ raw materials to reliably craft that quest item we need to reliably HQ.

Expanded inventory is a pretty common request. At the very least, it does work towards that goal by reducing the number of different items someone may have to carry around.

There's also probably some measure of time saving on the development end to not have to create a HQ version of every material they add in a patch or expansion. Even if it only takes a minute of time for a developer to add a HQ item, that could shave off hours of work better applied elsewhere.