High level gathering is useless

[jcw005]

The problem is that more people than ever are leveling gathering professions and there aren't enough crafters to keep up. People constantly undercut each other and so prices hit rock bottom. As an example, over the weekend, on Saturday morning, I sold a couple stacks of Bomb Ash for 90g each (not per stack). Just later that afternoon, it had already dropped to 20g each.

[Hachiko]

The problem is that more people than ever are leveling gathering professions and there aren't enough crafters to keep up. People constantly undercut each other and so prices hit rock bottom. As an example, over the weekend, on Saturday morning, I sold a couple stacks of Bomb Ash for 90g each (not per stack). Just later that afternoon, it had already dropped to 20g each.

More like 2 things are happening:


a) people that didn't level DoL primarily are running out of Gil. Repairs are expensive and once your 200k from questing runs out you are left with not much to spend.
b) people realized that the only use of crafters is for the Relic Weapon quest, since the best gear comes from dungeons / raids, and it can't have materia bound to it, which completely obviates the need to level any crafting classes.

If SE would allow limited materia binding to dungeon / raid gear leveling crafting would be in higher demand, and crafted gear would be in higher demand in order to convert to materia. But right now the only things that can have materia are the Darksteel level gear, but those are generally worse than Darklight (unless you HQ) and require far more tomestones to get the mats in order to craft them, in addition to the thousands upon thousands of gil for the mats to make them.

They did a poor job balancing the endgame equipment, and the pain DoL is feeling is a direct result of that, IMO.