Recently hit 50 MIN/BOT, and from the prices of some of the level 50 gear I'm looking at spending vast amounts of gil without any real prospect of making it back before the new expansion comes out. I bought the militia offhands as they were pretty cheap, and I'm using the level 50 quest reward mainhands and hats, but other than that I'm just wearing random crap from the NPC vendors in Mor Dhona which is more than adequate for gathering normal stuff.

As it is, I'm pretty much only bothering to do any gathering on days when there's a bonus on the GC turnins, but it seems like the investment required to make the next step up to actively farming unspoiled stuff and working towards the Lucis/Supra stuff is just not worth it considering there's only like eight weeks until the expansion...