Pointless Crafting?

[Archona]

Nothing sells currently because nobody needs to buy anything. There are multiple people with all professions at 50 on each server that will craft and meld anything for anybody for very minimal fees (since they're already multi-gillionaires). There is absolutely no use to leveling any crafts at the moment, nor is there anything worth crafting. Hit 50, farm Darklight/WP/AK/CT, then enter Coil.

As it stands, a new player right now would have to invest weeks of their time and hundreds of thousands of gil to become a crafter, and it would take them months, if not years to see a return on profit. It isn't enough to just level one profession to 50 when your competitors have all of them at 50, have all the cross-class skills and are able to guarantee HQ on every craft. Every big FC on each server will have at least one "builder" with everything maxed that can craft anything for a house. The only thing that consistently sells are relic precursors and the materia needed to be melded to them. Food buffs persist after death, so people don't need as many of those. Potions are useless outside of Twintania progression and are becoming more useless as players get gear to compensate. All else is fluff and does not warrant the gil costs or time investments. Most are a complete waste of time and/or vanity related.

The only way to make gil regularly right now are dailies, dungeons, and sale runs. Don't count on anything to sell on the Marketboards. Every crafting material is < 100 gil each, so its not worth your time to farm or sell.

Personally I have Alchemy at 50 and stopped caring about crafting professions. I'm sitting at 3.4mil gil as a non-legacy player, and I haven't sold or bought anything on the Marketboard aside from a relic precursor for an alt in several weeks.