Overflowing stupidity

[Xystic]

2* recipes are an exception. Their cost was always going to drop significantly as time went on because less and less people need the tomes so just blow them on ingredients. Add in 2.1 giving more tomes more easily plus treasure hunts and the ingredient costs drop and therefore so does the gear

This is fairly true. We speculated on day 1 that 2 star items would drop significantly over time. The reason why they were so profitable was because 2 star crafters were scarce at the initial start of the game. Players monopolized on such facts and did anywhere from a 1000% to 3000% mark up for their services. In any MMO, early game mark-up of goods, results in easy gil and its very easy to execute by any level of marketer.

The time of early markup on monopolized crafts are gone. We are at the point where true MMO marketers will only continue to be well off at this point and further on.