Dear Square Enix - I want to Craft

[Jade-Nephrite]

I am curious as to this. This amount of gil can easily be made almost daily by any lvl 60 craft.
GSM - buy aurum regis sand and gold ore - quicksynth or maco synth nuggets = profit
BSM/ARM - buy adamantite, titanium ore and make nuggets = profit
Weaver - make lmost any HW thread or cloth and sell = profit
cul - make HQ crafting, gathering, raid food = profit
leather - make amph, dragon, dhalmel, wyvern leather and sell = profit
crp - make birch lumber = profit
alch = make grade 1 dissolvents = profit

I don't think Katlyna's post was about how to make gil efficiently, it's what Red Script trade-in is the cheapest to make and every crafter on the server will probably do the same so the base mats increase in price as well. Here is an example:

I chose Noble Gold to craft for the week, I had to make 13 to cap my Red Scripts, total cost with the current MB price of base mats:

26x Water Cluster - 26000
26x Lightning Cluster - 7800
26x Aurum Regis Nugget - 113,100
26x Hard Silver Ingot - 163,800
13x Chrysolite - 25,350
13x Mormorion - 54,275
13x Enchanted Aurum Regis Ink - 74,100

Total = 464,425 now I didn't spend this gil, I collect most of the materials myself. You might think... why is the Hard Silver Ingot > Aurum Regis Nugget? That's because the Hard Silver Ore is a "Hidden" item and not collectable by Retainers.

So how many quick-synth Aurum Regis Nuggets would I need to sell on Ultros to get 464,425?

Base Mat costs = 4,350
Sells for 7,500
Profit = 3,150

You'd have to sell 148 Aurum Regis Nuggets... that takes days with all the undercutting on Ultros. I would say it's almost now a requirement to be an Effective Gatherer than a Crafter if you want to Craft in 3.0