Quote Originally Posted by Alestorm View Post
Food buffs are also a good way to get it higher and also become required for some macros to be 100% HQ. Though I wish it wasn't mandatory for pentamelding and food buffs for high end crafting. (considering just getting there can be a chore without road to 60) Just sucks spending so much effort and blowing up materia and this late into an expansion I'm wondering if it's even worth the effort.
I asked myself the same question back in HW and ultimately told myself that it wasn't worth the time and gil. But I think this is going to based on the individual, their own crafting needs and crafting goals. It is still quite possible to HQ craft if you need food to meet the requirements, but it's just going to require more work obtaining HQ mats to help out, manually crafting the items, and still needing RNG assistance. For me personally, that is the hard work I would rather do since I prefer to free-craft anyway and avoid macros. I am far too impatient, and far too easily roused to deal with all the meld fails.