(Diabalos) Crafting exploit?

[Rainsford]

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Ilmoran posted below, but the price of his Vanya breeches were actually 300k~ BELOW mat cost, and he sold multiple copies before raising the price.

Again, like I keep repeating, the whole "he brought the mats over from the old server" doesn't explain why ~no~ other crafts are leveled (and GSM was 0 before 3 days ago). Most of the crafting was done without melded jewelry. HQing 2-star items with 313 CP, bare-bones stats and no cross-class skills aside from Weaver and Leatherworker is very, very difficult, and can be made much easier by taking 3-4 hours to get the other crafts to 15.

I'll never understand why people tie themselves into knots defending things that are clearly exploits. Why would someone without even activating a mount be worried about "recouping" his gil? He'd make more money selling the mats on a lot of these crafts.