Read through the patch notes...

[Gramul]

You could do what I do and gather all the materials yourself.
haha. Hahaha! HAHAHAHAHA! HAAAAAAAA HAHA! I'M SO GENUINELY HAPPY SAVING MONEY AN SPENDING TIME!

[ruskie]

I was diaspointed to hear about new mainhands instead of offhands and such - but then I'm not yet working on mastering any craft so far. Still in the process on trying to meld stuff to atleast attempt getting the artisan tools. Do plan on getting all crafts to 50 just so I can help out with stuff like relics and such. Beyond that don't expect much in terms of profit.

[Seif]

Remember in XI how leveling even one craft was genuinely rewarding?

I honestly couldn't tell a new player why any of the crafts would be WORTH leveling.

Their fear of inflation and RMT has also removed all imcentive to take part in the economy in any meaningful way.
Why can't we have challenges like artisan's spectacles for DoW gear that could be sold or at very least something we could wear ourselves in battle.

Surely it takes just as long as spamming bray for Noct gear so why can't we have any rewards?
Crafting gear that makes just crafting hq stuff easier isn't really worth the trouble as nobody needs that stuff anyway.

[chumsy]

They should let us have the option to desynthesize and receive all materia back at the cost of destroying the item, that way ppl wont feel like they dumped millions of gil worth of materia only for it to become useless when new equipment comes out.

[tocsin]

Lol, necro post is necro.

Anyways, the destruction of materia is part of what keeps the economy flowing. otherwise, prices would drop, and it woul,d remove yet another form of moneymaking to the common non-crafting player.