So Thursday's maintenance is supposed to bring crafting/gardening adjustments...

[Zumi]

See, I have no problem with putting in effort.

I have a problem with putting in the gigantic amounts of money that you can only seem to make from crafting.

I started the game about 2 months ago. I don't have the mountains upon mountains of gil that others have.
That's why I'm annoyed with it.

Dude I am leveling up my crafts now and they basically cost nothing to level. For example you buy rainbow cotton boll and cotton boll to make rainbow thread then take that thread and turn it into cloth. You then sell the cloth back on the market boards you just made a profit all your gil back and then some. Crafting really doesn't cost anything to level just time.

[Nadirah]

Dude I am leveling up my crafts now and they basically cost nothing to level. For example you buy rainbow cotton boll and cotton boll to make rainbow thread then take that thread and turn it into cloth. You then sell the cloth back on the market boards you just made a profit all your gil back and then some. Crafting really doesn't cost anything to level just time.

Gear.

Doesn't cost crap to level it, it costs gil for the gear.

You can also send your DoL retainer to a 18 hour field exploration X to get a chance on a gathering/crafting materia III without the need to get crafting gear for spiritbounding.

Don't have one. Don't have DoL high enough to bother making a retainer of yet.

Alright. I just wanted to put this out there:

You don't make that kind of gil without either buying it, playing the market, having immensely epic RNG with rare minions, having high end crafting skills or selling your house on a high pop server.

I can't even HQ quest items my RNG is so bad.

And overmelding is what broke crafted accessories in Coil. They're why they won't make good crafted gear. Get rid of overmelding and you can have crafted gear that's a viable alternative.

[Zumi]

Gear.

Doesn't cost crap to level it, it costs gil for the gear.

You can make all your own starter gear 60 gear once you have everything at 60. The best gear will be released in a couple days will take red scrips to buy which are capped on a weekly lockout.