i also enjoy making things myself, all my equipment is either from a dungeon, my grand company or self made, and all my self made equipment is high quality.
the only time i literally screamed out in excitement was crafting, i had an hypothesis of how to make use of "innovation" so i was making some silver wristlets that were like 5 levels above me. i tested first on making the silver ingots, even with HQ silver i was having a hard time making the ingots high quality so i used innovation and used careful synthesis until i only needed 1 step, which saved me like 3 steps that i could now use for standard touch and..success, after i got enough HQ ingots i tried the same thing with rings and succeeded then tried with the wristlets and when they came out HQ i yelled out with excitement.