The whole red scrip system is a failure. The crafting side of it isn't bad in itself, it's the ridiculous requirement for gathering that's the problem, with the outcome just being mediocre. I made myself the mainhand tool for BSM, which required 80 items to turn in (from gathering), which on average worked out to be 6.5 hours of solid mining/harvesting, (assuming you get 3 items per 15 minute favor, I've had friends get as low as 2.3 per 15 minutes so that would would out to be approx 8.7 hours of gathering) and for what? A tool that in order to be equal to a pre-made red scrip bought one, needs 4 melds of IV materia, or to be better requires 1 or 2 V materias. That's just plain awful no matter how you "justify" it. The same can be said for the DOW/DOM items. The time/cost ratio on these is so damn awful it's simply not worth getting them. My desire to craft is almost gone, I'm just waiting for either a fix to this incredibly poor thought out material requirement, or failing that, I'll just do the bare minimum.