Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
As for those 99 Crow Feathers, the level 10 BTN quest says "Hi!". Other players are absolutely buying those stacks of 99 even if you aren't. Better to spend a few thousand gil buying the 99 feathers so the 15 minutes it would take to gather them could be spent making a few tens of thousand of gil (or a lot more). Of course a player could also go to one of the NPCs that sells them for 21 gil each to pay less but some buy off the MB for convenience or out of habit.
The level 10 BTN quest was changed with Endwalker- Now it only requires 10 Crow Feathers. So absolutely no need to buy stacks of 99 of them from the MB. Especially not when they can be bought fairly cheap from the vendor at the Carpenter's Guild.
Several other gathering quests that required large number of items was also changed to require more sensible numbers.