SOOOooo... gil making as a BTN?

[bounddreamer]

For the yellow scrip gear, is there a point to it: yes and no. At some point you will be able to augment it. I'm slowly, lazily acquiring the yellow scrip gear for DoL because of that.

However, you can spiritbond the white gear, convert it, and either use the materia or sell it, then put a new piece of white gear on.

[QT_Melon]

So, I wanted to know 3 things:
1 - Why bother with getting 1200 perception? the investment in melds doesn't seem to justify it, really looks like it's a waste of gil ATM.
2 - Is there another way to make gil with the class that I'm not seeing?
3 - And the yellow scrip gear? I seem to have hit the cap for everything with i290 HQ crafted, is there even a point in farming those?

1. Seems currently no need for HQ as much, but may need it for future patches.
2. Spiritbonding. Take some NQ gear (buy it from the vendors in Reach or Kugane) meld any 2 materia in it (Take those cheap DEX materia that people are selling for under vendor price for example) and hit some nodes 67 and above, and also timed Folklore nodes. Take the AlC Spiritbonding potion and you should get some tier Vs and VI materia from it.
b. Don't think big ticket items all the time, farm up items that constantly move as well. It does add up. Aetherial Reduction. You will harvest clusters and crystals like no ones business, and sands.
3. The Scrip Gear was never really a BiS (it wasn't in HW either) It's main purpose was to help players who hated melding reach stats that made it good enough for them to be able to reasonably craft/gather a considerable amount of recipes.

[jack891]

sell aethersands nq for a steady income, also high perception will increase your chances of discerning eye procs which means more sands

[Maero]

Materia is so easy to obtain (The Gathering iV materias i mean) so not really expensive to meld.
The yellow script gear is not very good, only the tools are worthwhile

I also have a miner and botanist retainers to help me out. Either for stuff to craft or just to sell.
Shards always sell well also, i make sure i stay around 4K in my tabs so i can sell if in desperate need of some gil