Quote Originally Posted by MelficeAlmasy View Post
Why do you craft and gather? Because you like it or is it because you want money for mansions and glamour? Well, if its because you like it, you wouldnt complain so i guess it is the latter.
I like crafting and gathering, but yet there's a limit to how much grind I think is "fun".

I like the minigame, but I don't enjoy how highly tuned they made it so that you need ridiculous gear just to be able to make stuff.

I enjoy gathering, but yet I don't want to gather 12+ items to craft one single item.

See, I enjoyed <Lv40 crafting. It was very reasonable, very straightforward, but yet it wasn't tuned so high that you couldn't take it on with Lv35-40 gear.

As for what I would DO with said crafts? I would make gear for my own use, maybe occasional sell on MB, but really I'm not a huge market person. I'll sell whatever I come across that might be worth something that I don't need, but I'm not some baron with hundreds of millions of gil, nor do I feel the need to be. I would like to be able to meld my own gear, I want to make gear for classes I am leveling so my retainers aren't full of junk that I was offered while doing quests but had no use for at the time, but knew I would someday later down the line want to level some of those jobs and I hate leveling jobs with outdated gear, nor do I feel like paying hundreds of K at the MB for gear.

I'm a DIY person. I enjoy crafting my own stuff. And I once was able to do this, but not these days sadly. I just don't have the time to dump nearly an hour on single pieces of equipment, nor do I really want to be spending $4 per month for extra retainers to hold mountains of crafting materials just so I don't have to go out and farm them anytime I want to make something.

EDIT: I also don't enjoy that stupid 1,000 character limit that everybody gets past with the Edit button anyways. What IS the point in that, anyways?!