The following additions and adjustments have been made to high quality items:
High-quality items that can no longer be obtained will now contain the message "Functions as a normal-quality item." in their description.
High-quality items that can no longer be obtained cannot be sold via the market board, nor can they be traded to other players.
High-quality items that can no longer be obtained will no longer grant an initial increase to recipe quality when crafting.
Though they can no longer be obtained, they may still be submitted for the completion of guildleves and Grand Company supply and provisioning missions. Please note, however, they will provide no bonuses upon submission.
2. The following items are no longer available as high quality: [2.x 4.x 5.x]
Items obtained via gathering or fishing.
Items obtained by defeating enemies.
Items purchased in exchange for Allagan tomestones.
Items purchased in exchange for crafters' scrips and gatherers' scrips.
Items obtained via aetherial reduction.
* Craftable items will still be available as high-quality items. In addition to crafting, they may be obtained via other means including treasure hunts and desynthesis.
* High-quality items crafted prior to Patch 6.0 will remain unchanged.
The following Skysteel tool materials are no longer required to be high quality when exchanging for upgraded tools:
Oddly Specific Obsidian
Oddly Specific Latex
Thinker's Coral
Oddly Specific Dark Matter
Oddly Specific Amber
Dragonspine
Oddly Specific Dark Chestnut Log
Oddly Specific Primordial Log
Oddly Specific Schorl
Oddly Specific Primordial Ore
Petal Shell
Allagan Hunter
Oddly Delicate Birch Log
Oddly Delicate Raw Jade
* High-quality materials may still be used when exchanging for upgraded tools.
4. An icon has been added to indicate high-quality versions of a material may be used for an initial increase to a recipe's quality
5. The following adjustments have been made to attributes for Disciples of the Land:
5.1 It is no longer possible to gather high-quality items. Furthermore, the chance to obtain high-quality items has been replaced with the Gatherer's Boon effect.
Triggering the Gatherer's Boon effect increases item yield by one. The chance of triggering this effect is determined by your perception rating.
Gathering point characteristics that previously increased the chance of obtaining high-quality items will now increase the chance of triggering the Gatherer's Boon effect.
5.2 The 200% bonus to experience points earned upon gathering high-quality items has been replaced with a 100% bonus to experience points earned upon triggering the Gatherer's Boon effect.
5.3 The requirement for the botanist and miner "An Eye for Quality" achievements has been changed from gathering high-quality items to triggering the Gatherer's Boon effect. Furthermore, these achievements have been renamed "An Eye for Quantity."
6. In accordance with the removal of high-quality items from gathering and fishing, the following adjustments have been made: [2.x 4.x 5.x]
6.1 The following quests can now be completed by submitting normal-quality items:
Miner class quests
Botanist class quests
Fisher class quests
Facet of Gathering quests
Facet of Fishing quests
Namazu beast tribe daily quests
Qitari beast tribe daily quests
* These quests may still be completed using high-quality items obtained prior to the release of Patch 6.0.
6.2 Bonuses for submission of high-quality items have been removed from the following quests. However, the base rewards have been increased:
Facet of Gathering quests
Facet of Fishing quests
Fisher fieldcraft leves
Grand Company provisioning missions
6.3 Fishers can no longer catch high-quality fish, and will now instead be able to catch "large-sized" fish.
6.4 When catching a large-sized fish, there is a chance to receive the Angler's Art status effect.
This effect may be stacked up to ten times, and can be used to execute various fisher actions.
6.5 The following actions and game features no longer use high-quality fish, and will instead use large-sized fish:
The fisher action Mooch
Now requires large-sized fish to execute.
The fisher actions Patience and Patience II
Now increases the chance of catching large-sized fish.
The fishing release list
Now includes a selection of large-sized fish.
The fisher achievement "The One That Didn't Get Away"
Now requires players catch large-sized fish.
7. When submitting or trading items, right-clicking with the mouse or pressing X with a controller will automatically select high-quality items or collectable items with the highest rating first.[2.x]