Lol... you made me chuckle and I feel the pain as well.
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I started 3.0 with a similar amount of gil, and within 2 weeks I had not only 8/8 DoH to lv60 with M3 books, but also 3/3 DoL lv60... and I have managed to make back most of my costs within the past month. The secret? Gathering your own materials and not being ashamed to ask a few friends to help you out.
In fact, I often bartered my crafting skills in exchange for some materials I needed at the time.
One thing so many people overlook are the GC hand ins... A starred HQ item can net you up to half a level of exp!! (not joking, I've got up to 1.8m exp from a single hand in)
Could I have leveled my crafts even faster? sure.. if I wanted to dump even more money into it.. but my DoLs levelled rather painlessly just gathering materials I needed for DoH, GC hand ins and collectables!
EDIT: I wont lie... having leveled retainers also helped out A LOT for certain materials (looking at you ltw....)
Don't forget that when you run a dungeon for esoterics, you pay 200k gil for it and give up to chance to gain anythinig but the esoterics from it.
The clearest message you can send: Ditch crafting until they resolve this mess.
Nothing speaks to a developer like the players refusing to interact with content they deem unworthy of their time.
Feel like you took that too literally. When I say I capped from weaver, I mean I did it 100% from weaver turn ins.
I had all crafts at level 50 before the expansion, so all I had to do was farm some deepeye tears and blue coral and craft Normal quality dissolvents.
Never needed hallowed water though, red scrip turn ins don't use that.
Maybe not supra, but I definitely spent way less capping red scrips than I did on the master II book. That's still the worst crafting thing ever.