Quote Originally Posted by Artemiz View Post
If you do that you're making profit from gathering, and actually losing money to craft it. Why would you do that? selling the mats is clearly the best way to make money in that situation.
Because I enjoy crafting.

I don't factor in opportunity cost, because I am not out to make money via 2-star HQ crafting. On my server, there's a lot of people who can craft 2-star HQ gear. Going into competition with these people for something that won't sell fast is quite risky.

The last time I sold 2-star HQ crafting gear was about 3 weeks ago. I ended up helping a friend craft a set of Rose Gold Earrings yesterday. Since I needed CP food buff, which last 35 mins with the new FC food duration buff, I ended up taking that time and crafting a lot of other stuff as well instead.

It really depends. Philo mats are 2.5k each on my server. Crafted 2-star HQ gear vary from 28k to 34k in price. Sure I'd make at the very least just 6k in profit IF I can sell it. But considering that I did not count the time to gather my own mats as opportunity cost, I feel that it's a profit for me.