Does Rank effect HQ success?

[Narru]

Someone told me that the higher your rank, the better your chances of synthing HQ items are.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

[cavill]

Doubt it.

[Ipwnzuall!!!111]

I'm assuming you mean guild rank, not player rank? If so then yes, I would imagine it does, if only indirectly. I doubt your player rank effects it at all, but since your guild rank depends on your craft skill, then it is safe to say that with a higher rank you will have a better chance to HQ, because you would have higher craft skill.

Edit: Just a guess, but looking back, maybe when they said rank, they meant "guild rank" and you thought they were referring to the same rank you gain from missions? That's for you to know and me to find out, I guess

[poweryoga]

well of course guild ranks affect HQ rate.... as you get higher up, you get better ranks.... so you can only get better ranks as you lvl up your craft.

no, rank (conquest) doesn't have anything to do with HQ. I've gotten just as many HQs on bastok rank 10 then windurst rank 1-5.

[Narru]

Sorry, I was referring to conquest rank you get through missions.

Thanks for the replies.

[Norraurra]

I wouldn't be to skepitcal. I have my reservations because of recent events. I was cutting gems trying to eek out a living as a goldsmith. Sure GS is full of glamour and the women seem to love the jewlery but damn if it isn't expensive. anywho my main is a lvl 48 Bard and I was getting about 33% HQ rate (lvl 49.8 GS). I changed into my level 31 BLM and warped to bastok (I was in Jeuno) to get Adv Synth Support. Thinking that might bump it up a bit. On the contrary it dropped to 10%. Now this is most likely coincidence. No real way to say without a large sample. I did 27 cuttings in Jeuno and 23 in Bastok.

[Glecent]

I think image support reduces HQ%, just seems like I get less when I have it on.

[Elaron]

I have the belief adv. support lowers skill points gained and HQ but also lowers chance of failure... i always go without support the last few lvls before cap. It seems i gain more skill ups that way.

[tdh]

I've noticed Guild Rank help with HQ synths. At Lv.48 before the tests I could make Famous Carrot Broth, but I'd make 5 stacks of Carrot broth to every stack of Famous. As soon as I made it back to Windy, and took my test, I noticed I was doing 1 Famous and 3 Carrot. (Part of this WAS on Waterday, but only about a handful of synths.)

As far as level, I've often wondered about this. In beta I did a little bit of synthing, but I noticed I failed more with my BLM sub then I did with my RDM main. For the most party, I always synth in my Mog House as DRK51, but a few times I've gone out to farm crystals at the lower levels and synthed as I got the crystals. I don't do this often, but I haven't found a noticable difference.

If somebody else could find some more solid information, I'd be interested in hearing it.

[Narru]

I too believe Adv Synth Support lowers HQ chance. When I'm doing large batches, I usually never get synth support. Though I belive in this, I'm not 100% sure of it.

But as far as skillup goes, I think of it as the synth support adds +X skill points (where X I'm not sure of the exact number). If X raises you over the trivial skill level of the recipe you're doing, then you won't ever get a skillup. Otherwise, you should still be able to get skillups with synth support or adv synth support.