Quote Originally Posted by Jade-Nephrite View Post
The Favor mats unbalance the whole system, if I want to acquire Gathering Gear I can't farm Favor Mats for my crafting... unless I spend 1 mil gil in Favor materials for 1 Red Crafting Token trade in. I've actually stopped crafting until I have MIN / BOT Left-side gear, holding off on the tool in hopes that we'll have new Lucis-type primary tools.
I was *this* close to resolving to make my LTW/WVR sets myself last night (instead of just using tokens), and then I was reminded I would need to have access to the Favor mats. After looking into prices (since I don't gather), I decided it just wasn't worth it. They feel like an unnecessary bottleneck.