Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
And, as always, that does not include the HQ Crafted Items, which casual / solo players are likely unable to make or afford. Specialist crafting may as well be Desynthesis by another name, as it locks you out of crafting items if you aren't specialized to do so much like Desynthesis locked you out of obtaining certain materials if you weren't specialized to do so. Either way getting crafting to those levels takes a colossal amount of time and effort casual / solo players likely don't have, and the prices for said items on the Market Board are simply outrageous (~750k / item on Famfrit last I checked, which totals out to 12m gil.
This!

Screw the grinding it's not an impossible barrier but the fact that you MUST have at least 9-10 MILION gil at your disposal cut out the target of the anima weapons