Gil Buyers!?!?!?

[Elegance]

First off, "no DoM/DoW/gathering classes above level 5" is impossible, you can't take a crafting class until 10.

In all honesty its not hard to level at a profit, as long as you are willing to spend hours sitting and refining mats and reselling them.
Since crafts often require mats refined by other classes, its fairly easy to consistently sell said mats at a profit.
It's also pretty darn easy to consistently hq once you have enough cross class skills.
Heck I can use the macro system for everything save starred crafts, don't even need to react to Goods.

You'll actually be surprised how many gatherers are willing to help out crafters, in one of the crafter LS on my server, its actually not uncommon for some of them to just give their mats away.
I also actually have a second account I was planning to use exclusively for crafting, but since I found I needed to level a Dow to unlock field leves, I just used this.

[rabbitzero]

First off, "no DoM/DoW/gathering classes above level 5" is impossible, you can't take a crafting class until 10.

In 1.0 you could start as a DoH/L, from level 1. That's the only thing i can think, is they are legacy, but then would probably have a DoW/M just because.

On reddit, there was a thread that had people talking if they got banned for buying gil. Some talked about having bought tens of millions, or much, much more, and not even getting a warning. Many also used mule accounts, that they would then send to their mains. Not sure if it's the same now, since Square bans in waves, but i do believe Square is one of the harsher ones to ban. And even with mules and such, they can track it pretty easily.