Unbalanced Experience

[Cherie]

Getting a crafter leveled and geared from scratch is actually less time consuming than leveling up your beasttribe rep. No amount of grinding would get your beasttribe capped in a week. However, with just the 9 red scripts each from gatherers and crafters able to be gained in a single week, you can make a full set of gear for a single crafter job (close to, if not more than enough).

I was someone that didn't even do the gatherer scripts in the beginning because I don't like to gather... I was of a mind that: "No way! You can't make me gather!" But, I gave up on just trying to purchase the script materials straight out (its expensive...very expensive) and just broke down and farmed my gatherer red scripts each week. It's actually very easy and not really that time consuming, unless you decide to just sit around and wait for nodes.

The materia is the only expensive thing. But even that, did you know you can just farm diadem for that stuff now? Or you can spiritbond crafting gear for them (which is what i do). I rarely just straight out buy crafting materia. And yet, I sell 3 stars on my server, but like, even that isn't the end of it. People seem to think that being a 3 star crafter is the end of your financial problems... It's really just the beginning, they suffer from the same aggressive undercutting and such that selling anything does. If you think getting into a market with a smaller group of people means less undercutting, then someone was lying to you, it is MORE undercutting.... I rarely undercut mine. I'm just not that patient. Some people stand by their retainers all day and just undercut undercut undercut the day away, every few minutes.... I can't do that.

So yea, if you want to be a "end game crafter", money isn't the real barrier. Very few people just buy the mats to make the gear. Its the red script farming that is the boss you have to beat to win. The gear is basically free if you do that. Then you just gradually farm materia and fix it up.