Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
People who did the Ixal quests can get it for free
people who don't like to put some work into it should buy it with gil from people who did the work.

This is how MMO markets work ^^
It's not really a matter of work but rather the lack of any chance for people to catch up in crafting. If a crafter can afford to buy the sealants he's going to do it because getting those off hands gives him an advantage. A crafter trying to catch up doesn't have this luxury.

Which leads to the question of why bother attaching these mats to a daily if you are going to just let the rich crafters (or RMTers) skip all the "time gated" aspect and get to the finish line? It's not like it's going to make a dent in the crafters wallet and they'll make it all back when they start selling the high end items.

It just seems like it would have made more sense to have these be untradable so that people actually had to go through and acquire the mats themselves (like the Artisan Main Hand HQ turn ins) rather than just letting people buy their way through it all.

I'm just not sure what they were going for with the way these were implemented.