Crafters have no right to get their own Chocobos

[Nini_Fisher]

Since crafting leves never interefered with battle leves it would have seemed a bit of a waste for crafters not to take time out to smell the roses, or rather, kill the marmots. If they never bothered... well... where do they get the shards, gil and some of the materials from?

You'll probably find a lot of crafters do have a reasonably well ranked battle class

Only leatherwork require farming on hide, the rest of other crafting classes can work with gathering class only.