Quote Originally Posted by Okiura View Post
this i's just have to disagree with mainly because the question will be "why make an NQ item for a 10k profit whin i can make a HQ item for a 100k profit in the same amount of time?" so the HQ mats cost more not a issue when you know the outcome is going to be a HQ item.

Edit: As for making items out of the random mats cottected during normal game play, if it's good SP do it and NPC keep retainer space for the high value HQs. if it not good SP the just NPC and NQ mats.
I kinda get this but you need to think of the big picture. Not everyone will be able to afford HQ gears or HQ mats to craft HQ gears even if it is more profitable. So there will still be a market for NQ gears for the average player who is low on gils. The rarity (as stated by Yoshi-P) of the HQ mats will make it so that it is rare and valuable to gather and craft the HQ gears but the majority of the mats available will be NQ.

People will grind on NQ gears so there will always be a market for that, new people and people with less gils that need a new piece of gear might buy a NQ gears until they can craft or afford a HQ one. So there will be a market for both NQ and HQ gears.

Sure if you can afford the mats to make your HQ gear, you won't bother with NQ stuff, but there might not be the HQ mats available to buy. So NQ mats and items will still sell at a good rate for an affordable price, HQ mats and gears will sell at a slower rate because they will be rarer and more expensive.