Crafting is fun!

[DarthBuzzer]

I don't craft for gil either, but because of this system I cannot craft for the sake of crafting. No, I have to do 3 hours of objectively badly designed gathering for 10 minutes of being able to enjoy crafting actual difficult recipes, and I may or may not even be rewarded due to DC's. Plus, these items have an almost non-existent market on all servers. Their prices are sky high and encourages gil buying because their high price is dependent on the system.

[Silverbane]

No, I have to do 3 hours of objectively badly designed gathering for 10 minutes of being able to enjoy crafting actual difficult recipes, and I may or may not even be rewarded due to DC's.

A couple of differences between you and me, apparently:
1) I enjoy running Favor nodes, although it does get exhausting running full-tilt like that, so I do them 15 or so at a time.
2) I rarely DC. Hopefully that will continue to be true, I just yesterday upgraded to a 16-channel DOCSIS 3.0 modem (to get 300Mbps service) and from the event logs on it I think it is waiting for a configuration update from my ISP, which caused it to DC once last night.

[Ksenia]

I don't craft for gil either, but because of this system I cannot craft for the sake of crafting. No, I have to do 3 hours of objectively badly designed gathering for 10 minutes of being able to enjoy crafting actual difficult recipes, and I may or may not even be rewarded due to DC's. Plus, these items have an almost non-existent market on all servers. Their prices are sky high and encourages gil buying because their high price is dependent on the system.

There is some serious RMT manipulation in HW right now but it's a double edged sword.

I have challenged a few of the items that were over priced on Sarg and the markets crashed almost immediately, never recovering. So while it's great for the gil sellers to have the optic that you need hundreds of millions of gil, even when you break that optic, it becomes clear nobody wants most of the crafted stuff anyway. There was one item selling for 20K, it should sell for 4 or 5 on Sarg. I started making some, monitored my sales and people trying to keep the price high bought more at 20K than did when I flooded the market at 8K per.

hence the double edged sword. Yes, it's doing wonders for RMT but without RMT manipulation, there would be no market at all. They are doing the game a favor in an odd way.