If you aren't "abusing" Reclaim you should be. If you have 56CP left and the conditions aren't favorable to HQ something like a 2-star item, why finish it? Yes, it would absolutely stink to lose 10M+ of ingredients, but let's be honest, what good is an NQ result? It has the same stats as something that costs about a hundredth of it. I doubt you'd sell it for even a tenth of the cost. In other words, continuing a failing synthesis is as good as losing 10M+ ingredients.

Reclaim. Don't buy into the horror stories of reclaim. 90% is 90%. All the people with their reclaim anecdotes don't mention the 9/10 times it does work. Seriously, make a macro. Make some copper ingots. Reclaim. Do it 1000 times (enough to get a reasonable sample space). Check how many sets of ingredients you have left on you. It would be in the ballpark of 900 (90%). Anyway, this thread isn't about reclaim exactly, but it is a useful tool. Don't be afraid to save your mats at a 90% rate as opposed to a 25% HQ chance since you only got 9 IQ stacks.