Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
There's just not enough steps/durability to get your quality increases from anywhere else. If we were to not factor BB in the current setup, you'd need well around 13 successful touches to get to at least 80% HQ rate. And besides, BB getting "Half your quality" is contingent on you getting that many successful IQ stacks in the first place anyway.
Oh no my proposal would almost certainly require some serious quality adjustments and other dynamic changes to abilities. IQ could be kept but the BB finisher would have to be axed. But I stand by the believe that having progress and quality as one hit finishes at the end is 90% of the dynamic crafting problem.

It would be like if you had to exactly kill a boss, and if you did too much damage you failed. That's basically where crafting is at right now... which is insane.