Quote Originally Posted by DrWho2010 View Post
this is a useless suggestion. waste of dev time.
Since you have all 80 DoH, I'll assume you either don't craft seriously or have plenty of retainers.

HQ base materials are all literally useless for a maxed crafter right now. They serve no purpose and waste inventory space. You can 1-100% every craft in the game with NQ materials.

I can't see this being too difficult for the devs. Retainers already have set chances to gather HQ dependent on gear, you simply set that to 0% if the option is ticked. You could also add a persistent version of the Pick Clean 0% HQ buff that could be toggled on and off for gathering. If this actually was difficult to code, that's fine, it's a QoL suggestion after all. If is isn't difficult then it's worth making the suggestion.