Question regarding: Powerful Fish Bait / The Panicking Boy 4

[Nathaniel]

Where was I supposed to find ingredients of sufficiently high quality to create the Powerful Fish Bait with a quality of at least 70? Up to 2-3 times, I searched every single location, picking up everything in sight. Failure to find proper materials left me stuck on this mission for approximately one month, giving up more than once. I made sure to look up instructions, and still none of it led me to ingredients with high enough quality.

Finally I decided to check out the Kurken Town marketplace and had instant luck. I'm actually a little pissed off about that.

Back to my question: anybody know where I was intended to find such ingredients? Any feedback is appreciated. This makes me feel stupid, and if I am please let me know.

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

You can use the Alchemy Grid for Delicious Bait to create something with a high quality way easier, (Just make some High Quality Flour, which is even easier, again, to make) then use the Powerful Fish Bait Recipe Node on Delicious Bait's grid to turn it into powerful bait.

Also, (This is something I only JUST DISCOVERED) when it asks you if you want to craft the item once it transforms: SAY NO! You will still have "Choose Quantity" points left, and in fact transforming an item gives you 5 free "Choose Quantity" Points.

Meaning you can get an even better Alchemy Results by starting with Flour and transforming it into Delicious Bait, then Powerful Fish Bait.

[Bobucles]

Indeed, building a high level recipe by starting with a lower level recipe will allow more ingredients for the entire thing. More ingredients mean higher quality, more chances to fill out the recipe, and more choices for your 3 favorite traits.

High level equipment benefits immensely by starting with the lowest level weapon. If you can quickly skip to the next tier, the bonus ingredients will give tons of chances to add ingots or leathers to give permanent stat boosts to the whole thing.

[Nathaniel]

Wow... Okay! that makes a lot of sense. This seems like knowledge I can make use of at every stage of the game, so I thank you both very much.