Quote Originally Posted by Kiara View Post
As Yasminou said, yah, you can HQ these. But just looking at the Lodestone Database, I noticed that the *HQ* version just gets you to equal stats of a regular "Wave" (i95 Leviathan) weapon. So the NQ of these weapons is subpar of the i95 weapons out there. Sigh. I know you can add some Materia on there, but those secondary stats account for a minor percentage of your overall damage.
All crafted items of equal ilvl and slot/job have to be HQ to match dungeon/raid drops of equal ilvl. Nothing new there.