Quote Originally Posted by Tiraelina View Post
Money? I've gathered everything. All of my gear also comes free from LS mates for helping them with materials.

Nobody on this forum can take anything at face value. The grinding is ridiculous and quality does not speed it up. The only thing it might do is give a slightly higher return on money and take 3-5x the time. Having ~360q from +3 mats and another ~300 from synthing shouldn't just give another 5-10% XP or is that how you like it? It should be giving more along the line of twice as much or higher.
Don't mind him, Betelgeuzah is just a blind fanboy that defends anything in the game to no end. The fact that you have something like a 5% chance of HQ at 50 quality, and only a 20-30% chance at 500 (ten times as much) is ridiculous, and inexpliccable. And it's even more inexpliccable that you get the SAME exp for EVERYTHING.

It's a terrible, terrible waste of time to even worry about getting HQ stuff when it's more exp efficient to just get mats and spam the same ~300ish exp recipe over and over.

Doing higher level synths, and synthing to higher quality should give you a bigger exp boost. But as it is you end up spending something like 100% more time per item, you have a significantly higher chance of failure, and your experience is roughly the same and all you end up with is a 20% higher chance for your armor or ring to have +1-5 more defense. At that point... who cares? Why take the extra time and risk? There's no point and anyone who argues that the current system is defensible is off their rocker.