Best approach to unspoiled nodes?

[MIGhunter]

How are you guys melding your gear?

[NintenPyjak64]

Really? My servers boards when you look at sale history is all HQ sales and hardly any NQ sales. However, I totally agree with you if that is the case on your server.

With my Goldsmith I'm self-providing. I hate having to rely on prices going up or down for various mats. With my melds and cross class abilities, it takes no effort for me to HQ with NQ materials, even on 2 star recipes. A method like Roth mentioned would actually benefit somebody like me more and in the end, I'm saving so much more gil

[StouterTaru]

My way gives 5 gathers at 32% HQ chance at 90% success, plus a 0.9^5 = ~59% chance at a 100% HQ gather chance at 100% success, for 5*0.32*0.9 + 0.59 => 2.03 HQ gathers per node.

You skipped the chance at HQ if you don't hit all of your first 5 swings, it boosts it to about 2.14 HQ swings per node.

In the end, your way gets under 10 NQ and 6.5 HQ per node, if the RNG gods do as they say they will.

I get 25 NQ per node. I'll take my 15 extra NQ over your 6.5 HQ, but I'm one of those crafters that only needs NQ items.