Crystals in abyssea!

[Bustax]

Exactly!

1. Get off your ass
2. Farm
3. ???
4. Profit.

Go kill elementals. Spend like 2-3 hours in places with a decent amount of crystals and you'll have more than you can handle. >_>

The reality is that 5k ish is what stacks of crystals should be worth in the first place and they were higher priced like GERM said, then the crystals went down to like 500 gil per stock, specially wind crystals from all the colibri parties, and to give you a point that was because ToAU was the main focus point for players at the time. That was a golden era for crafters in that sense, because you could take advantage of such low prices, but then again not so good for new players.

I have Goldsmithing 100 with all subs 60 and Woodworking 100 on my mule, yet crystals is last on my list of complains, I have a mule with at least 10 stack of each different kind of crystal for rainy days when they're hard to find or whatever, I have many more mules that garden stuff for me so I can reduce my overall investment, like GERM said I'm cheap too. Now that's not to say that has to be your solution, but as a experienced player you claim to be, you should be more than capable to find ways to get your raw materials (to include crystals) and resources.

So once again:

Exactly!

1. Get off your ass
2. Farm
3. ???
4. Profit.

Classic South Park ^^