Quote Originally Posted by ChiiSoSeriouz View Post
In 1.0 you needed to buy arrows, apparently it was expensive to bard and was a nuisance. When transitioning to 2.0 they reduced the currency amount by 1 digit, i believe they sighted removal of bard arrows as the reason they did that. So it's not lore related, more of a QoL.
This is why. Arrows were removed because of the Gil reductions from 1.0 to 2.0. I had 2M Gil in 1.0. Once my character transitioned to ARR, I had about 200,000 gil. Yes it sucked but they had to reduce costs from NPC purchases as they were high, especially arrows. Plus it was annoying in FFXI, with having to purchase stacks of 99 arrows along with ninja tools being at 99. It was expensive in FFXI because of that as well, which is another reason I quit that game as I kept running out of gil because of consumables.