Quote Originally Posted by Lyrinn View Post
I craft to craft, not gather. Likewise, I don't raid to do something other than raid. Imagine how happy people would be if you had to grind out MGP for raid gear or something equally irrelevant.
Yet you don't have to...raiders can make their own potions or buy them. Crafters can gather their own materials or buy them. I like that crafters have to make a choice between spending a significant amount of gil and sit on their butt pushing macros OR gathering the items themselves and then sit on their butt pushing macros.

It should NEVER be...buy cheap mats and sit on their butt pushing macros (at least to make the top stuff, anyways.) Let's face it, crafting is one of the laziest things you can do in a game - I'm glad SE is moving towards crafters having to make a choice between profit and laziness.