Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post
there is no more skill used to get a hq nugget or ingot then than there will be afterwards.
This you cannot say with 100% assurance. You are more likely correct than not, I concede, but until the changes actually release we can only talk about likelihoods.

Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post
i may be mistaken, but i do not believe it will be the case that they redo every item and remove all items that are lower rank from mid to high rank synths. from the recipe examples they posted they will just be using more generic forms of the materials in the synths and not completely redoing them all together.
I'm not sure how you get "using more generic forms of the materials in the synths and not completely redoing them all together" from the example synths. All three example synths given use rank-appropriate recipes to make the ingredients for the final items. There will be more skill required to HQ a rank 45 ingot for a rank 48 item then to HQ a rank 5 ingot for a rank 48 item. Not much, but some. This is why I proposed keeping the "touch up" system, but using it for ingredients (post 1.20), as it will no longer be of any use for finished items under the proposed changes.

To be honest, the current system generates a lot more grinding on materials to generate HQ then it does final item synths. Opinions may differ, but I find the "touch up" system more engaging and rewarding then the "one shot" HQ method currently used for materials.

However, I think the point of our disagreement is this : I am absolutely NOT saying that SE will do this. I am saying that SE could do this. If SE were to do this, the proposed changes could turn into an accessible, yet interesting and challenging crafting system. Ultimately, the "fate of crafting" rests upon factors that have not yet been told to us. This means that the changes that have been released to us are not intrinsically good or bad, since they depend upon other factors.

It is good, I believe, to discuss the repercussions and consequence of the proposed HQ and recipe changes, since the forum mods do occasionally pull out ideas / feedback to give additional points of view to the dev team.