Wooooodum said:
I would say it's probably 60 since Black Tiger Leather is 61. I'm 0/18 on the HQ of these. Not enough to confirm that it's a T0 I know, but that's my guess going on what other Smithers have experienced as well.
This is not always the case. There are alot of other recipies using high, or higher level materials than what the subcraft requires. For example, tiger ledelsens, uses mythril sheet(Lv41GS), but the recipie itself requires only Lv29 GS as sub iirc. Your theory, however is a decent one to make a guess on what the subcraft to a synth is since it is often, but not always close to what the recipie items cap it at:) The Black/Onyx Cuisses also is a big loss, excluding dusk gloves I dont see many, if any T0 items with subcrafts beeing that huge of a loss anymore. Im leaning towards T1 for these legs.