Amount of HQ items RIDONCULOUS!

[Moirear]

It's hard as it is to guarantee HQ on items you're not leveled/geared enough for. This means you spend lots of gil just to gear up, or if you end up maxing several crafts just to make it yourself, spending lots of gil to get there quickly. And the longer you wait to get into the market with all the ridiculous undercutting, the less your chances of making money, and the less money you have the less likely you'll get to that point of "easily" churning out HQ product.

The problem isn't HQ vs NQ, it's the undercutting that causes crafted items to sell for way less than it costs to make them and that all crafts are—without any changes to the way crafting or the market boards work—doomed to become a vanity project in this trend.

The ilvl50+ items need to be HQ to even compete with all the AF/DL/drop equipment and that's WITH materia melded. If made artificially rare, prices skyrocket with nobody earning gil to buy them and people give up on them and use nothing but what they grab on dungeon runs or can buy with tomestones.

[Maxthunder]

The issue is anyone can hq, and this creates a market that players dont profit. The wards/market is flooded with materials and gear thats hqed so this reduces the price so everyone can buy it but... it also makes it hard to make in game money. Currently there is no balance in the amount of materials that can be farm nor the amount of hq items that can be crafted, so everything is dirt cheap and no one can make very much gil. So now we are back at square one again everyone ends up being poor because everyone and their momma's can hq and or gather everything. In the end something needs to be done or the market will crash to the point that the only way to make money would be to run a damn dungeon. Currently it isnt even worth crafting items or materials to sell on the ward/market because the time/cost or what have you is more valuable than the amount of gil you will actually sell it for (if you dont end up being undercut to the point you end up taking a loss).

[ChrysaorUSon]

I'm not gonna lie, I do undercut a lot but only because others undercut me, so the cycle never ends. Just know though I will undercut every 10-20 minutes all day so you want get over on me much.