Quote Originally Posted by Shironeko_Narunyan View Post
Or you could just.. ya know.. goof off, tell everyone whose time you waste in dungeons to pay your sub and be done with it.

Sounds good?
Or you could just... ya know... get your capstone AF gear which is sufficient for entry level into cap level dungeons and work your way up through dungeon drops, tomes, and raids?

Sounds good?

I certainly didn't buy any of the level 80 armor, and I wasn't crafting them until I had 2-3 jobs at 80 already. There's nothing forcing you to buy it. I also don't craft for profit - I purely craft to gear myself up when I do - and I don't use aetheryte tickets, and yet I'm casually sitting on about 7m gil without much effort. That's from roulettes, challenges, and doing things like treasure maps with friends, which I maybe do once a week if that.

There's plenty of means by which to earn gil. Level your retainers and have them go out to gather items. Desynth dungeon gear since it's now 100% and sell the materials. Level a gatherer and sell materials. Do your roulettes, run dungeons, complete your challenge log - heck, there's a 10k gil reward for just completing five challenges in a week, and an additional 10k for every five after that through 20. Do levequests. There's so many opportunities to get gil, so while these increased travel costs are going to be there, they're hardly going to be crippling unless you can't stay in one place for more than a few minutes at a time.