This is how I made gil for a big house.

[BluexBird]

How is crafting and gathering a flaw? You've never taken the time to level your crafting/gathering classes.

I got Armorer to 30 because I thought that was the level you had to be in order to make glamour prisms, which at the time were going for a lot of money. I thought that would be a good way to make some money. To my dismay, once I reached 30 and found out I actually had to be level 50 AND go through some ridiculous quests on top of that, I just gave up completely.

I eventually got FSH to 70 because I thought it'd be a more fun way to make money. I was wrong. I should have gone with one of the other two. But even that isn't the most efficient way. That is what annoys me the most. Cuz after the disappointment that was my level 70 FSH, I actually looked into it and found that it doesn't even pay to have just one class at 70 - you need a bunch of them. In fact, the more you have, the more money you make. And I just don't think it should be this way. It shouldn't JUST be crafting and gathering. There should be things non-crafting classes can do to make a substantial amount of money. As it stands, materia-farming is really the only way we have, other than the money we get from completing roulettes. I remember how we were able to sell Lore tomestones to crafter. That was a nice trade off, until they got rid of it for no reason. Now people just sit with capped Verity, when really they could be giving people who like PvE a way to interact with the crafting players by providing items that are in demand. Crafting players get millions and millions of Gil that they never get to spend (because there isn't anything to buy, really), while PvE-focused players sit with their Verity/Poetics. Good job, SE.

But I guess in the end, it doesn't matter anyway. I already have a house, and more money than I could hope to spend anyway. However, not everyone is in my situation, and I just don't feel they should be obligated to pour hours and hours into mindless, pointless grinding just to get a crafter to 70. Like, maybe if they at least made storage and inventory management easier. But the fact that we have to visit retainers and keep dumping items around every time we want to craft stuff is just infuriating.

Though I guess not as infuriating as this forum's pointless 1000 character limit.