hq levels

[Pandaman]

I have seen three stories about hq levels:
10, 30, 50, 70 above
10.1, 30.1, 50.1, 70.1 above
11, 31, 51, 71 above

Does anyone know which is correct?

Also, if I were say 48.1 above and had +2 in guild items, would I be considered 50.1 above for hq purposes?

And how about with image support?

[poweryoga]

image support lowers HQ success, thats all I know. Not sure of exact #s for HQ but its possible at any level as long as you're on a good day with a good moon. (say new moon for example.)

Its not BS because I got several HQ scorpions while I was skilling up on those. confused the hell outta me.

[Norraurra]

What are you smoking? Advance Image Support hinders HQ chances?!?

[Macht]

The right day makes a big impact on the HQ items you synth. I was able to craft a few HQ items out of items I was failing frequently on because my crafting wasn't good enough for them at that time.

[D0oM]

Originally posted by Norraurra
What are you smoking? Advance Image Support hinders HQ chances?!?

yeah it lowered my HQ rate also. (at lv81.6 cooking skill)

im pretty sure it makes success rate higher at the cost of lowering HQ rate.

ya know, if u face S using earth crystals, u have higher chance to successfully make a normal syn. if u face NW u have a lower chance to successfully syn it, but a much higher chance of HQ'ing it.

after 3 days and ~80 stacks of making pet food, yeah thats true.

also as for the support. im making bug broth. use support and i make like only a handful of HQ1's (not a single HQ2 or 3) out of about 2 or 3 stacks. I try it another day w/o support make i do about 3 or 4 stacks of materials. i only had a handful of normal syn's and quite a lot of HQ3's.

[wild]

did you take note of what day or moonphase you were crafting on? or did you just craft on a random day?

[Arturo-B]

I find guild buffs reduce my hq rate, though it's mostly subjective. It's based on months of crafting, but really random often ends up being > all when hqing.

At any rate I only use them when I'm worried about success, not when I want an hq. If I want to hq I expect to be 20-30+ anyways.

[Kafeen]

Re: hq levels

Originally posted by Pandaman
I have seen three stories about hq levels:
10, 30, 50, 70 above
10.1, 30.1, 50.1, 70.1 above
11, 31, 51, 71 above

Does anyone know which is correct?

Also, if I were say 48.1 above and had +2 in guild items, would I be considered 50.1 above for hq purposes?

And how about with image support?

None of them. I've had HQ success at level 4 in Clothcrafting, and about level 7 in boneworking. Higher levels might increase yout chance of success but as far as I can tell it's possible at any level.

[Nela]

the HQ levels he's refering to is the rumored amount of levels you would need to be over the item's cap by to have an X% increase in the HQ rate.

for example... my smithing is at 90.6 (w/ guild items)... and just about anything around level 40 and below I can HQ approximately 50% of the time on. HQ rate seemed to be influenced heavily by the day... haven't done any personal testing on the effects of moon phases aside from fullmoon/new moon.

at 50+ levels above the cap... I average 50% HQ, though on darksday with a light synth... I've gotten 11/12 HQ's on a batch >.>a'

Whether or not that's a fluke, I have no idea. I've been kind of busy lately to collect and analyze synth data... so~

:3

[Narru]

I feel image support does indeed lower my HQ synth rate.

So far I've had about 10 random tests with this, on all random days (stretched out over a couple months) where I would try half my batch with image support and half without. Everytime about half way through the batch where I had image support, I decided I needed to remove it. So I ran to another guild in the same city, got its basic image support (which lasts around 4-5 synths), so that my advanced image support would end quicker. It's THAT much of a difference. Though you it's still possible to get HQ with advanced image support, I find the chance is much lower.