Do you feel xp gap should shorten for DoH?

[Nuru]

Yes. It's awesome giving a person you have no ties to, don't know, and likely speaks a different language a 200k gil item and a 800k gil materia...

As for the OP, the crafting leveling curve is ridiculous. It appears to be almost necessary to level a craft, if not more than one with the advent of materia, not only so that you can have an "inflow" of convertable items to turn into materia, but also because you have to socket items. And going for more than one materia with a stranger is bat .... crazy.

But if the crafting curve stays as it is, it will hands down drive people away.

Its great to have friends then ;3

Otherwise, have fun crafting!

Also, materia craft isnt that hard. Its your choice to do it yourself or not, and of course, if you want to "solo" it is going to take more time. Obviously obvious.