ah, i just had a bit of conversation on this with loftar yesterday on IRC.
he said he had recently made a restoration.
17:05 loftar > Ah yes, there is a recent change on finery forged, though it's not so much a "change" as a restoration.
17:05 loftar > Ever since I remade steelworking, I made it so that quality could only go down in the finery forged, but then I accidently dropped that somewhere along the way, so I just reintroduced it again.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11259so, you still want to have a higher quality finery forge than your metal quality, but it is not working the same as before.
(a couple of weeks ago, fuel q and forge q were raising the bloom q from cast, but not any more, if i understand correctly.)