Quote Originally Posted by Dragon_Lord View Post
In answer to Dorin's remarks.

Time is money if you have a deadline to deliver the goods. No such thing in this game. You make your own time. You have to level gathering anyways, but if you don't like gathering I can sell you a stack of materials, but you will pay the Piper's fee. LoL
There's this thing called opportunity cost. In the time it takes you to farm all the random mats and shards (especially shards) to make "pure profit," I'll likely have sold more in the same time for a total profit greater than what you earned. Of course, this varies depending on what items you're selling but if you can get better gil/time, why not? I'm not advocating one way over the other as I care only about the raw numbers, but you're naive if you think you're not missing out on anything -- unless you don't even care about earning mass amounts of gil, in which case, why are we even having this discussion?