Could somebody explain: Trained Eye

[ICountFrom0]

On step 1, quality is almost always 0.
What use is it to increase it by 50%?
Or would you only use this if you where using HQ materials to give an even larger boost at turn 1?

[DrWho2010]

it's just to make old recipes even easier to craft and make hq - cutting down steps.

[ICountFrom0]

How?

+50% of 0, is 0. How does adding 0 make it easier?

[Nixxe]

How?

+50% of 0, is 0. How does adding 0 make it easier?

It adds 50% of the maximum possible quality, not the current quality.

[ICountFrom0]

Now that's something that should be in the documentation somewhere. And here I was thinking it was only useful to get more out of multi step crafts where you crafted the lower level components yourself, and thus it would boost the starting quality. Instead it replaces using those components.

Thank you, have a like.

[Shadygrove]

Besides, quality starts at 1% except for items that can't be HQed. Those start at 0.

[Niwashi]

Besides, quality starts at 1% except for items that can't be HQed. Those start at 0.

Quality starts at 0 (unless you're using HQ mats). It's the HQ percentage that starts at 1% when Quality is 0.