Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
Or maybe, if crafters in the west (I heard it's less of an issue on JP servers) would stop charging absurd premiums, botting would not be so lucrative in the first place.
How does that explain FATE and crafting bots? Players bot because it's free money or progress while they AFK and there are no consequences for doing it. If sands were cheap they would just bot something else, like they already do.

Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
(Scuro and Chirao aren't must much anymore because they are for low level items).
Scuro is used in grade 2 tinctures

Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
So please... forgive me if I can't be up in arms about us gatherers no longer being able to charge 50-100K for an item that is utterly trivial to obtain.
If it's so trivial, why not gather them yourself?

Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
If a few survive (and there will always be survivers) it's not the end of crafting as we know it.
Except it's only a few that ever get banned, which is what the topic is about.