Is YOUR server this way?

[Mihana]

i agree about the servers being empty and quite and stuff but the whole thing on crafters not answering you is simple, you said it yourself there are arrows in the wards, that's where you buy them lol. the price in ffxi for demon arrows were way higher at start, fact even at the end of it's life they still costed 50k a stack, maybe little less at times. it's the cost, i know the economy itself is screwy so yeah i can get it a little ...but no crafter even if the server is full will grind out arrows for you for much less then what they selling for. most the time the arrow price is only 2-10k profit, probably way more at moment but that is the economy.

Actually... I was able to get my arrows crafted, and for a single stack of cobalt (Ironically sold -all- by the same person) was close to 150K I think, I might be a bit off. But buying the materials for 3 stacks (9 of each material, cost me only roughly 30K. So... if cobalt arrows are going for about 150K a stack... And the player buys all the materials to make the stacks themselves, they're making about 140K per single stack, 130K maybe if costs are a bit high. Issue is that nobody is selling them so they figure there's no competition, and they can get overly greedy.

also archer is kinda the class in this game just like in ffxi where it cost a little more to be a good one cause you had to spend some gils to keep it maintained. if your struggling now it might not be a suitable class cause every time we get cap raises or new arrows and things ..the prices will probably be this retarded unless SE decides lets make a no arrow cost to the system. if i sound like i'm kinda ranting on you i'm not, just saying this is how my opinion to it is, others probably don't agree with me but it's how servers usually are. don't let the starting beta of this game confuse you, the whole everyone making things for each other faze woulda coulda shoulda ended long ago. when nothing is in wards it's understandable, when it's packed with these things it's just not happening. sorry if this gets some mad, but if your even putting in a 1% effort into paying for your things like others are you wouldn't have an issue. one way or another there is a grind. go farm some raptor skins or something. usually the time it takes a begger to find someone he could of made the money to buy one.

Thanks for making assumptions there... The issue is some items, hell, a lot of items are overpriced. And why's that really? There's fewer crafters. As I was buying the materials myself I noticed there was a huge stock of every item required just to make the arrows. Problem was nobody was bothering to make them and the few that were wanted to overprice stuff. And two things... I'm by far not struggling, my gear actually pretty decent (Not top grade but a bit better than I've seen on some people.) and I offer to pay every time, in fact I often over tip just out of kindness since they took their time out to do this. Most often I have people who will do it for free. The issue at hand is even with a reward there's so few crafters around these days there's only a handful who even care enough to do it.