I understand how the HQ works. My question is based off of this: I just finished two synths, 1 with a NQ and 1 with a HQ mat. My quality on the NQ was around 300 and yielded 1500 xp. My HQ mat quality was around 700 to 800 was at like 42% HQ, but I only got 1200 xp from it.

So my question is: Is the xp based off of the actual increase in quality achieved through synthing? I'm having a hard time understanding the discrepancy between the two synths.

Thank you.