There are things that have never made sense to me like this: peacock ore selling for 25k each, you need 9 for an ingot as well as a rose gold nugget. Now the nugget is going to cost you about 2k with all nq mats(gold ore was about 400-500 each) so we're at about 227k for this rose gold ingot in cost, nq sells for 200k hq for 250k. I love the logic that on an nq you deserve to lose money and on hq you deserve roughly 10% profit. The market is broken, I was making base relics and we were all doing well at about 20k-30k profit with materia melded in an hq, now we lose money or break even because about 2 people keep it crashed. Nobody cares that the leather workers are charging 100k for that base relic.

Crafters should be able to make 10% on nq's and 25% on harder hq's. You gotta pay to be lazy.