Thank you. You're exactly correct that there needs to be a more defined threshold into HQ. Don't really care much about a low level getting an HQ-1 at around 30 quality, but an HQ-2? Ha!

As far as the HQ gear situation dealing with the original topic, I've stated my reasonings as to why I don't like this system. It just seems like it'll be a total disaster down the line where everyone has at least the HQ-1, but the NQ will be a pointless item to sell except in some rare situations. It'll be like......Let's say Haubergeon. NQ=10k, HQ-1= 20k, HQ-2=500k, HQ-3=3,000,000 gil.

I see people easily making a +1 feature on every piece of equipment so I'm sure that it'll just be as low as possible in correlation to an NQ item. Hence making the NQ item worthless. Just my opinion, though. I could totally be wrong in the end.