Quote Originally Posted by Brises View Post
Important point, never buy mats that you can make or gather.
Never say never. Time is money, opportunity cost, gathering is only free if your time is worthless, etc. It's better to make intelligent and informed decisions about what to buy vs. what to make/gather than to just stick with a blanket strategy. It's going to take some pretty strange circumstances for me to make cotton thread again instead of just buying it from the Alchemist's guild, or even off the market boards. Also can't bring myself to spend hours mining my own silver ore when buying it, crafting it, and selling the results nets more gil/hour and is over much faster.