Petition for leves

[Jojoya]

For collectables, usually at the beginning of an expansion, the prices are high. So selling them could be very profitable... or the materia can be kept for overmelds at endgame after lv 90.

Certainly - at the beginning of the expansion when the end game materia supply is starting from zero and the first couple of weeks of the X.1 and X.3 patches when new crafting/gathering gear is added. It's also assuming the player has access to the end game materia (very easy to hit level 90 without having MSQ progression in Endwalker).

What about the other 18 months of an expansion?

For Firmament, the dyes bought with Skybuilders' Scrips are actually still as pricey as they were a year ago. So very profitable.

Yet for someone leveling, the amount of scrip earned is very low compared to the price of the dyes until you reach level 80. Even then you're looking at 2-8 crafts per dye.

Before saying someone should be using X not Y method, we need to take into consideration their situation:

Are they crafting to level or for profit? (the fewer crafts needed while leveling, the faster the player can take advantage of more profitable content)
Do they intend to get heavily into Master/Expert recipe crafting? (scrip becomes more important)
Are they gathering all their materials (when possible) or buying from the MB? (it's all profit when you gather everything yourself)
At what point in the expansion cycle are they doing these things? (prices change as the market supply increases)

Different answers to those questions are going to yield different best methods.

Also some people like me only have 2 crafting jobs and 2 gathering and we are kinda lazy when it comes to scouring through the entire MB to see which is profitable so we just try to use the no thinking method which is leves gil farming. With the commanding tea, to get the mats it takes 30-40 min and then an hour to make it HQ tea. so for me getting 1 mil gil in 2 hours without thinking is a blast. But the turn could be done as what Liam_Harper said, collectables like system.

Definitely it would be nice if SE could make leve turn-ins similar to collectables. I don't know if they can do it considering the way leves are acquired and the system also handles the battle leves, which cannot be turned in the same way.