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[Calevr]

Pre-Abyssea FFXI (Hell maybe pre-Aht Urghan), is exactly what he is getting at. Crazy time sinks, can only max one craft, time spawns high level NM's (24-36hr) with 2% drop rates, xp grind that is laborious to say the least.

Stuff like that, you know the "good old days."

Not a chance. I loved "Pre-Abyssea FFXI" but those time sinks I do not want to see again (Maybe 2-4hr on those) As for crafting I prefere it the way it is now.

[Ikeda]

As for crafting I prefere it the way it is now.

The way crafting is right now is the reason the economy in this game is almost non-existent. Everyone can raise all crafting classes to max = everyone can be self sufficient = a crap ton of people making things with almost no one to buy them because they can just make the things themselves.

[Alukah]

The way crafting is right now is the reason the economy in this game is almost non-existent. Everyone can raise all crafting classes to max = everyone can be self sufficient = a crap ton of people making things with almost no one to buy them because they can just make the things themselves.

I don't know how it is in a legacy server, but here people tend to neglect low-mid level stuff and only focus on high level, making a simple lvl 15 or lvl 20 gear piece more profitable than lvl 50 recipes, with just two retainers you could make 300~400k a day and you only spend a few mins a day crafting, enough time to do other stuff like SBing.

[Calevr]

The way crafting is right now is the reason the economy in this game is almost non-existent. Everyone can raise all crafting classes to max = everyone can be self sufficient = a crap ton of people making things with almost no one to buy them because they can just make the things themselves.

Perhaps I don't know alot about that but I like the idea that if I work at something I can get good at it. I think one of the coolest features on this game is that I can be all classes on one character.

[JayCommon]

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Pre 2.2 maybe. Not sure what you have been playing since 2.2 but the economy boomed and has showed no signs of stagnation in my server (which is much smaller than Sarg)

This has happened because it is a severe time-sink to have all of these crafts at "Master" ability now. How many crafters do you know that have all 8 DoH classes with their ilvl 70 weapon? If so, that person is most likely sitting on a 9 digit bankroll (or broke themselves spending as much gil as they needed to penta-meld every bodyworn piece of every class so they could actually meet the reqs to craft the 3 star recipes)

Either way, the economy right now is absolutely NOT non-existent. I sell a total of like 6-7 items regularly and make no less than 1-2 million a week. Not all of that is from crafting, but people sure love glamouring Giantsgall weapons.