FFXIV High Quality Endwalker

1. FFXIV High Quality Endwalker[2.x 4.x 5.x]

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.

    FFXIV High Quality Endwalker

  • 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.

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3. Skysteel tool materials [5.x]

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

high-quality items icon

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.

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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.

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]

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