Quote Originally Posted by Devils_Lawyer View Post
Shard bots is the reason people dont have to go low level gathering for 6 hours just to make a batch of items.

Without them the price would go skyhigh.

Dont get me wrong, i dont like bots in general but paying 10-20 gil a shard instead of 500-1000 does make me turn a blind eye to it.
Pretty much this. Peoples always forget that botters/RMT are main suppliers when it comes to crafting materials, sadly without them the MB would be pretty dry because players are either not arsed/dont have time to do that.