Airship Guide

[Arcticharm]

(which in turn reduces your chances of a repeat because of the 1/3rd or 2/3rd reduction in materials needed gives less chance for quality boosts)

This right here is what makes this annoying. We only try to HQ items for the phase BEFORE one with a lot of expensive items in it to try to reduce our costs. This may mean doing low quality items in phase 1 just so that we have more chances for quality increases in the last phase. (just an example)

Each time you turn in items for progress, you have a random chance to gain a variable amount of quality, anything from 7-18 average. Quality of materials turned in has no effect. Level of materials does seem to have an effect. For example, turning in Varnish may get you 7-12 progress, but mythrite ingots may get you 18-20. I've gotten as high as 36 quality off one turn-in before, and I've also done 12 turn-ins with 0 quality gain before as well.

Is this true about the HQ items? I thought that they had a chance to give a higher quality increase but could still give normal or no quality increase. Is it really just tied to item level?