Alla Dev. Interview

[Kyreth]

what was said about the HQs and crafting:
(paraphrasing, as it was reported via podcast)

currently there are synths in goldsmithing that allow you to use HQ items, but the other crafts don't allow you to use HQs, wouldn't it make sense to be able to use HQ items to make Higher Quality HQ items?

There's been a good deal of discussion on otherwiki regarding this sorta thing- allowing HQ versions of items to be used in synthesis for items, and possibly giving a bonus to the synth in some form when doing so.

For example, all those stupid +1 chunks of useless wood you make when crafting Warp Cudgels. Guess it got down the S-E pipeline and someone put a bug in the dev's ears on it.

[Ambir]

On serious note being that they're raising the cap for crafting it's like what was said earlier they may add new HQs or recipes. One off the top of my head Vulcan Ring.

They didn't actually say they were raising the cap, just the maximum crafting level...

There are reports of another +1 item to become available for crafts, but I can't seem to find a link atm...

[Gwynplaine]

The actual interview has been posted now:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/sdetail.html?story=11328