Awesome post, Kakure, thank you. That is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. So it looks like the best methods for making gil have moved away from crafting due to the overabundance of max-level crafters with maxed out equipment and toward the DoM/DoW side of things with duty roulette, and the new retainer ventures things, which someone in my FC apparently had bring back an item worth 250k last night.

The market crash was pretty much inevitable, and is one of the things that pushed me to leaving. I was having fun with the economy as an early crafter, but once the profit margin on things started to bottom out to almost nothing, I took my ball and went home, so to speak. I tried a couple other games, but nothing gives me that feeling of being immersed in a world like XI and XIV, so I came back.

I noticed there are still some small profits to be made in some of the same things that were often overlooked in 2.0. HQ Vintage gear is usually good for 2-3x what you spend on mats to make it and sells a few times a day. Anyway, thanks for the post! I'm going to get to work on my DoM/DoW and get into endgame and hang onto my gil instead of getting back into the market and crafting.