Item Quality Increase?

[Kalise]

I think there should be an option to increase the quality of items from NQ to HQ, much like you can reduce the quality of a Collectable to HQ/NQ or a HQ item to NQ.

Of course, there would be caveats. Such as requiring multiple NQ's for a chance at a HQ.

I was thinking something like 10 NQ's could be attempted for an increase in quality to make a single HQ item. With the chance being approximately the same as if you were trying to obtain the HQ from the usual source (I.e. ~15% for gathered materials and whatever the chance is for mob drops). With failure just destroying the NQ items with nothing generated.

In addition, you could also allow the use of a catalyst of some sort to improve the odds of successfully increasing the quality. With the catalyst being a level/rarity appropriate item with an associated cost.

Just as a little extra thing to help alleviate poor RNG when farming for HQ items, where you may end up with stacks of NQ's which may be worthless...

[Niwashi]

Are you talking just about gathered and dropped items, or crafted items as well? I like the idea for the former.

[Kalise]

Are you talking just about gathered and dropped items, or crafted items as well? I like the idea for the former.

I'm just talking about gathered/dropped items. Rather than Crafted. Since, Crafted, well, getting the HQ gathered/dropped items is already the way to improve the chances of making HQ items.