Currently when you HQ an item, only the base stats of the item are improved, such as defence, evasion etc. This makes a lot of HQ items have barely any benefit over NQ. These items include all jewellery and all DoH and DoL equipment (except tools).

As a goldsmith I feel we're being hurt by this since jewellery is our speciality and all the stats a player wants from their jewellery (such as STR, accuracy etc.) are not improved with an HQ result. You aren't going to care what the defence stat is on a ring when you're buying it for the accuracy or STR.

Basically stars should be applied to all stats on an item, including those at the bottom.