So, this was pretty weird and it's never happened to me before. I was making some Dragon Finger Gauntlets for a friend who is trying to HQ Cursed Finger Gauntlets for himself. I had a set of 12. On the 10th, I hq'd. 11 NQ'd, then on 12:
- I saw the HQ animation start and rofl'd at his shitty luck
- I opened my inventory to gaze upon the waste of two HQs
- Before I scrolled down, I noticed in my log that it said the synth failed
- I scrolled down and saw the HQ still there
I got a SS just as it was finishing but not combining the bizarre elements that would prove I'm not insane:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3515/weirdhqbv7.jpg
Also, in Plusx's log he said it didn't display anything, break or NQ. I don't really have any conclusions to draw from it, except that it's interesting that there's some sort of game bug which mixes up HQs and breaks ("break then hq!" being a long-standing mantra). Just thought it was pretty weird and I'm curious if anyone else has seen this.