Sanity check - crafting job skip potions?

[Penthea]

And if someone wants it only for making money, just do some of the most needed low level crafting items and you will make quite a good amount of gil.

OK. Skip pot to 50 then. I'm game.

Clearly you misunderstood my post and the person above you I quoted. Crafting doesn't start becoming profitable and relevant at 50. You can start making decent money at around lvl 20. The same goes for gathering.

At least on those levels you dont need the best equiqment to do stuff. Everything on the high level (which includes the newest housing items, glamour and pets) need very good equipment and gatherers on high level too if you dont want to buy everything. So it needs a big investment...will someone really do that if they cant even be bothered to level them up the normal way?

Likely no. I know a few people who bought their crafting materials because they were too lazy to gather, and they also used an online guide with macros to do the crafting for them. They hadn't a clue how to craft on their own. By the time they reached max lvl and hit the point in which they would need to start doing specific things for scrips they lost whatever small interest they had. They complained about how hitting max lvl isn't enough to craft everything and gave up on it.

I saw similar with a player who bought boosts for everything. Msq and all their classes. They were upset to find out that when you're lvl 60 people expect you to be able to play as if you're lvl 60, and not a lvl 20 sprout. They were annoyed that content at lvl 50+ is significantly more challenging than Toto-rak. They were angry that buying the boost wasn't enough to get them through the game. So they quit.

People who buy shortcuts because they cannot be bothered to work towards a goal typically end up quitting at the point in which they cannot buy their way anymore. Not always, but it's usually how it goes.