Quote Originally Posted by Fantasy9 View Post
To be honest, you crafters are just too greedy. As I was leveling my black mage from 50 to 60 I was looking for gear since dungeons were being stingy with caster gear and as soon as I saw what you people were selling just normal quality for it was ridiculous. 300k+ for NQ gear is just highway robbery. Don't even get me started on the HQ versions which is what I was looking for. 500k+. I decided to not spend the gil and got by on mixed level gear. Not ideal, but better than spending an atrocious amount of gil on leveling gear.
Take a look at the recipie and the price of the materials (don't forget crystals), then calculate the profit. Especially where the person requires HQ mats (at least some) to HQ the item. It's often small or negative.

Also take a look at how much gil the crafter needs to gear up (unless they can craft their own and have abundant time to collect their own mats). It's millions of gil from 50-60 and there is little other option such as vendor gear / quest reward gear. On top of that the crafter needs to spend gil on mats for leve/provisioning hand ins, which return 0 profit, to actually level up. At least as battle class you can avoid the marketboard and just buy from vendor or get drops from dungeons. They need every gil they can get their hands on.