To: FF14 Dev Team,

The Rank 6 Ixali Beastmen Crafting Leve Quest, "A High Wind in Ishgard" looks like there's a bug (wrong difficulty setting):

* It's set as a "Level *16* (SIXTEEN) only Crafting Leve.
* I have all Crafting Jobs at Level 50 (w/ appropriate cross-class skills mapped).
* I can HQ 3 Star Crafts.

But attempting this *Level 16* Ixali Crafting Quest, the difficulty is set too hard.

* It looks like the amount of Debuffs (Reducing CP, Limiting various factors) is set too stringent (Bug? Wrong Setting?).
* As a result, it's Very Hard to make the HQ Item required for this Level 16 quest.
* NO OTHER Ixali Quest at Rank 6 is even close to the difficulty of this Quest.

Please fix this. Thanks!

Time: 11:01 p.m. Pacific
Frequency: 80%
World name: Masamune
Character name: Kiara Silvermoon
NPC name: Norbettaux
Monster name: n/a
Class/Level: Weaver / 50
Party or solo: Solo.
In-game time: 3:38 p.m. Eorzea
Area and coordinates: Coerthas. Dragonhead (25, 16).

Steps:
1. Load up Final Fantasy XIV.

2. Accept the Ixali Beastmen Quest, "A High Wind in Ishgard" (from North Shroud Ixali Camp) (it's Rank 6).

3. After trading the proper materials, approach Norbettaux NPC (at Camp Dragonhead) and begin the Crafting Quest.

Result: Attempting to HQ the items for this Level *16* (SIXTEEN) Quest is bizarrely too difficult. It's nearly impossible to get close to 100% HQ Chance without multiple Tricks of the Trade procs (random / luck).

Again, I have all Crafting Jobs to Level 50, and can HQ 3 Star Crafts with no issues, but this Level 16 Beastmen Quest feels like the Debuffs / Difficulty Setting is set wrong (by accident). NO OTHER Rank 6 Ixali Crafting Quest is even close to this difficulty.

Please adjust the difficulty to be more appropriate.


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