Well rage all you like but as I mentioned earlier in the thread, each leve reset gave everyone 8 crafting leves and 8 battle leves. There was no excuse not to do a battle leve, as it would reward the player with more Gil to spend on crafting items and gain shards to craft with, along with materials dropped by enemies you defeated during the leve.

Plus in the case of many crafting classes, you HAVE to do a battle class anyway to get sinew, skin, fur, fangs and countless other things unless you rely entirely on selling gear to earn the Gil to buy shards and materials, which could take forever unless you try to undercut everything on the market.

I'm a crafter too, I spend most of my time crafting, but I don't ignore my battle class, because not having a battle class also means you'll only be able to experience like, 10% of the games content, you won't see behests, battle leves, dungeons, raids, or the upcoming beastman strongholds, ifrit battle or caravan escorts. Why pay for a game when you're only seeing such a small amount of it's contents?