[Personal] PvE Progression VS Crafting

[Sho86]

Crafting can be profitable from numerous standpoints; you don't need top tier melded gear to make decent profit. Just watch the MB and dig for whats currently hot (I managed to get the small high tier plot I wanted in a rush with only semi-melded gear on crafting when plots first opened up). Clearing group content should always come first since as you already said yourself, it gets harder to find people as it gets older. Sure, you might not make that possible 5mil gil sale and instead sell the same item for 3mil later down the road, but at least you cleared the content you wanted to clear, and still making profit in the end.

Edit- Balmung will be a bit more difficult to find those niches since its a heavily populated server - comes with the territory. Although I did visit that server this weekend checking out other servers markets and I did see some of my typical go-to's for profit open.