Quote Originally Posted by MilkieTea View Post
HQ gathered items essentially doubles the amount of space your gathered items take up. Crafting HQ gear does not require HQ items, therefore there is no need for gathered HQ drops.

They’re not doing this in some nefarious plan to screw gatherers over - they’re doing this to help. As it is now, inventory gets extremely bloated.
If crafting HQ gear does not require HQ mats, why can you still craft HQ intermediate items then ?

Even if it's not "some nefarious plan to screw gatherers", SE tends to sometime screw a role for "the greater good" that nobody asked for.

A stance preventing gathering/craft of HQ items was an easy thing to make if it was just that.

I think there are some others reasons tied to "to many items in game" , but this "fix" is only short term then . It would better to "fix the code" and/or spend a bit of money on the game