Virtually empty Market Board?

[Naria]

Pre-30 you should be sticking to quests/dungeons/vendors for your gear because the low level gear market boards will be too expensive for new characters. It mostly serves people leveling alt job/classes and spiritbonders. Your class quest every five levels will give you a new weapon. 1000s of gil may seem expensive now, but in several levels it won't.

I'm sure there are plenty of things on Zalera's market board, you will just have to adjust your search settings to see them since the default search settings will only bring up items you can equip. Crafted gear can be used until level cap, after which point you switch to dungeon/raid/points gear with a few exceptions.