Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
what ohers do has no impact on what you manage to achieve by yourself.
Another point is idd the fact that you can pretty much play this game as a single player, most of the times you level crafters simply to not be subject to other ppl prices, which is especially true since SB simplified crafting in a never before seen way.
in HW you were forced to rely on others because everything was a specialist recipe at one point in time, you could only have 3 specialist tokens AND swapping specialization had a steep cost, also the first crafting set was job based which coupled with the less than stellar avaibility of crafting materias led to ppl beign unable to craft everything by themselves and needing of reliying on others to craft since recipes required different kind of materials from multiple specializations.

Nowadays you have an omnicrafting set, a much simplier way to get materias, 3 specialist changes a week for basically free, no caps on scrips and so on.
You don't even need to use the MB anymore as a crafter