Question for Yoshi P regarding the HQ revamp

[MeowyWowie]

Forgive me if this has been asked before..

It's more or less confirmed that current +1 items will be degraded to NQ items and current +3 items will remain HQ after the HQ revamp takes place. It's also currently known that +2 items are in the process of being reviewed to determine if they will remain HQ or be downgraded.

My question is..

Will we know what the future state of +2 items will be by the time of patch 1.19's release?

The reason I ask is because the materia system will be implemented in 1.19 and many people will begin to upgrade their equipment. I'm fairly sure quite a few people would be upset to see their +2 items degraded to NQ after the change. But I think it would be even worse if these same players spent time and gil to upgrade this equipment beforehand, only to find out that they have to do it all over again because they expected them to remain HQ after the change.

In all honesty, I would have preferred both systems to make an appearance simultaneously, though I know that this is not the case. In an effort to save yourselves and the community from having to deal with people raging more than is necessary, I would humbly request these results before or at the time of patch 1.19's release.

[OriginalHungerforce]

I post this in every HQ revamp thread.

Iこんにちは。
Hello,

採集で取得できるアイテムについては、パッチ1.19のタイミングで通常品質と高品質+3の2種類に変更され、高品質+1、高品質+2がでないようになります。
Regarding items you can gather; at the timing of patch 1.19 gathering items will be changed to normal quality and high quality +3 and +1 and +2 items will be removed.

これは、かばん圧迫への問題への対応と、先日吉田Pがコメントしている、「パッチ1.20以降予定のHQ製作改修」の一貫として 行われるものです。
This is part of what YoshiP commented to condense inventory space in this post: (link above) which will be done continuing for the HQ crafting changes planned for 1.20 patch or later.

また本スレッドのコメントの中にあった「+3だけが残った場合の高品質アイテム」の名称については現在検討中です。
We are also looking into what was commented in this thread regarding "If +3 will remain to rename it to HQ item name"

今後も引き続きフィードバックをお待ちしています。
We will be waiting for your continuing feedbacks.

I think the change is only going to be affecting materials... at least for now.

[MeowyWowie]

I'm fairly sure that +1/2/3 will be removed for all items, and replaced with NQ/HQ.

We are planning a revamp for HQ item synthesis from Patch 1.20 on. Currently, there are multiple qualities of HQ items, which can get confusing. To fix this issue, we plan on separating these items into normal quality (NQ) and high quality (HQ). NQ and HQ items will have clear differences in quality. Also, the synthesis process for HQ items will be changed as follows:

HQ Cobalt Sabatons
├　HQ Cobalt Plate　×　3
├　HQ Cobalt Rings　×　1
├　HQ Boar Leather　×　1
└　HQ Electrum Ingot　×　1

Basically, in order to synthesize an HQ final item, HQ versions of every ingredient must be used. Players are guaranteed to synthesize HQ items if all the ingredients used are HQ. However, it will be very difficult to obtain HQ versions of all ingredients.

This whole quote is relevant to this topic, but the bolded part is the most important.

They clearly offer an example of "HQ Cobalt Sabatons." I think you may be mistaken.