Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
Nope. I know one crafter who can do some of this stuff for me, but not all of it. Besides, I can never pay for it.

I don't craft. Firstly, I find it uber-boring. Secondly, and more importantly, I only ever get a short time to play in the evenings. Wasting that precious time on crafting is a waste of my subscription, especially considering I don't even enjoy it. That's fine, really, but the real problem is that this game is designed so that pretty much the only way you can make money is by crafting and exploiting prices on the MB. There really aren't any other lucrative alternatives except maybe selling Raid Clears, but even that is only available to people who have a regularly scheduled static party. So that's pretty much a no go as well.

This means that I don't have the money to pay for the kind of prices crafter's ask for. 10 k here and there isn't bad, and your crafting buddy is pretty generous to do it all for 160k... but on my server crafters are charging anywhere between 3 - 6 million. So, players without the crafting cash cow get locked out of this content, because we're just not hardcore enough to sit around and craft, I guess. It's not the end of the world or anything, but it kind of sucks.
I will say, I'm pretty accepting about most of the quest. The one aspect about that does actually irk me is the crafting part. Not because of how much the items are being sold for, but because they are all specialist recipes, meaning you can only possibly make 3 of them on your own, unless you have crafting mules. Even though I'd probably still not get my crafters to the point that I could make all the items on my own, I'd accept it a little better if that was at least doable. I'm lucky, my FC is the largest on our server, and I know I can get everything made in house. But I do know most people aren't lucky enough to have access to so many veteran crafters.