Red scripts were a away to make materials rare, incredibily rare, to a point, even now being dungeon dropped they still rare! rare enough to be, at least on my server, more expensive than ever before EVEN after being dropped in dungeons. Why? Cuz there isn`t really a demand for them, and most crafters in need of them, either get them by themselves or ask a friend who wants to earn some extra gil and has a few favors arround.

Sometimes idk what is SE thinking. This whole expansion for crafting has been a disaster from every point of view possible. The breach between rich and poor has only growth larger, exponentially larger, the abysmal level of grind and time required to get into crafting has become basically a discrimination rule against new players wanting to participate in increasingly smaller and controlled by a few markets. There is basically no room anymore, i would love to say the new raiding crafting gear is a good addition that revitalized crafting... And it would have been, if not only a few were able to actually craft the damned things.

Not to mention, materials are so unnecesarily rare/expensive, and the time requiered to craft 2 star crafting gear so long, that is honestly, unless you were on the top of the wave at the point of implementation with several hundred millions to back you up, a real economical suicide.

For me, crafting has become in near dead content, went from HC to MC crafting for time issues and the horrid script system, and the requirement of gathering... No, i just couldn`t do it anymore, even if i probably have resources enough.

If this is how things are gonna be for crafting, well, congratulations SE, you are officially the mayor supporter of RMT activity and wealth concentration of this game economy. Because thats the goal right...?