Should HQ crafts affect the item level?

[Bacent]

I'm curious on what people think. Since 4.2 I've been seeing people buying normal quality ilvl 350 stuff, which is much worse than 330/340 stuff you can get elsewhere.

Should an item be considered ilvl 350 when it's NQ compared to the stats of a HQ item?

[Vstarstruck]

in a way they kinda do.

HQ is the same as dropped gear of the same ilevel, while NQ is lower, even primary stats like strength or weapon damage, though the materia cap is the same, so you can put strength or intelligence or w/e to make up the difference.

All in all though I feel it is a bad system, NQ being "noob traps"

[Azper]

You know what they say, "A fool and his money are soon parted."

If people can't be bothered to actually check the difference in stats and just blindly purchase stuff because it's a higher iLvl... well, that's kind of on them.

[BillyKaplan]

Since 4.2 I've been seeing people buying normal quality ilvl 350 stuff, which is much worse than 330/340 stuff you can get elsewhere.

Maybe they're trying to clear an ilvl gate. The fact you can do that with gear that's inferior stats wise is a can of worms all on its own.

[Vstarstruck]

Maybe they're trying to clear an ilvl gate. The fact you can do that with gear that's inferior stats wise is a can of worms all on its own.

Then they are cheating the system. NQ is not the true ilevel it says. That is why I do not like the system, esp with weapons, it can cause problems, i/e not having enough HP to really clear the place if they have ilevel carry values on the right side, while under gearing +NQ on the left.

[Felis]

If they change that HQ give a ilevel bonus, inclusive the main stats still at the new max cap, then they also have to give NQ gear max stats for their original ilevel. Which mean that main stat materias will become useless.


Wouldn't a job mainstat check be better instead of a ilevel check for the DF?

[Vstarstruck]

If they change that HQ give a ilevel bonus, inclusive the main stats still at the new max cap, then they also have to give NQ gear max stats for their original ilevel. Which mean that main stat materias will become useless.


Wouldn't a job mainstat check be better instead of a ilevel check for the DF?

they could, or they could decrease the ilevels for NQ, i doono

[Sylvina]

I think its fine for it to be the same item level as NQ but have slightly higher stats.

[Alkimi]

Alternatively NQ gear should just be the same stats as HQ but have 1 materia slot (or none in the case of belts and accessories).

At least then it would still be usable.

[Nihility]

i think they've come to a conclusion that NQ is just as bad as failure

only thing that makes sense to me with the last few rounds of crafted stuff having NQ that is like ilvl -30