Quote Originally Posted by DarkEiraStar View Post
I don't know anyone that made money from leveling crafters, if anything they spent gil to level. If you were able to get to 70 on all crafters while amassing a small fortune good on you, but that isn't the case for every person. And as I found out, the end game script gear isn't the best crafting gear because you can't put materia into it.
You can make serious gil as a level 15 crafter. 2-6 million gil a week on a world like Balmung, for 2hours of daily play.

It comes down to studying the Market Board.

Secondly, if you level DOH/DOLs through the following, you won't be spending so much gil:

Beast Tribes

Collectibles(see what's the cheapest mats/craft depending on the MB)

GC turn-ins. World Visit has made this ridiculously easy. Often you'll get HQ turn ins for less than vendor NQ price

Grinding out cheap low level crafts with FC/GC buffs,manuals and cheap food

Desynth. Often people sell items which can be desynthesized for valuable crafting mats for less than 1000 gil.

Also, I'm using yellow scrip gear for both DOH/DOLs. My observation is that not having crafted pentamelded gear might lock you out of the explosive gil making from the HQ higher tiered star recipes, when at the start of a patch but:

There's plenty of items which are not required to be HQed,non-max level crafts which sell hourly/daily even during content lulls when plenty of people are unsubbed.

Low-medium profits (50~500k) per item/stack but high volume of sales.