Scions - cheapskates?

[Cilia]

By the time you really become a major asset to them, you're famous enough that you've probably got artisans begging you to use their weapons and armor, or being offered paid endorsement deals for everything from kiddie cereal to orthopedic underwear everytime you set foot in Ul'Dah. And in Heavensward you've got your sugar daddy Haurchefant to take care of you...they probably just assume you can manage your own gear.

Enter Rowena, whose apprentices extort you for ultra-rare artifacts and high-quality merchant goods in exchange for the materials for your new weapon.

Assuming you can take care of your own gear is just like assuming someone will have the necessary tools to do their job when they're hired. And while we may be famous now, they supplied us with nothing I can remember to go take on our first three (hell, they were unable to do so at all for the last of the "starter trio"), and nobody gives us anything for free despite all the effort we put into saving their skins time and again.