Honestly, I think the most time conuming / expensive / friend-required Craft is Leatherworker. Once you hit Aldgoat Leather (Level 20) you start needing Mining. You also need Weaving and either Armor or Blacksmith for ingots. And let's not forget the overall shards count...

At the moment Leatherworker has 28 1-star ites and 20 2-star items. Poor Carpentry has very little High-Level recipes... (Hello Patch 2.1 to fix this!).

Overall, I think LTW cost me about 400,000 gil (yes, 400,000!) To get from Level 23 - 50. Now, that may not be much to many of you, but I rarely keep that much gil on me or my retainers as I'm always helping friends and what not... (yes I know that's a measely 20 Philo Items... a whopping 25 runs of WP/AK...) and it would have been much more if friends hadn't chipped in with some supplies for materials for crafting class quests.

What are your favorite and least favorite things about your crafting classes?