Collectables are the best (and really, the only reliable) way of getting Crafting and Gathering materia.As a side note, could somebody tell me a bit about what it was like in the days when collectables mattered, what it was needed for, what you did with them?
Its also a FANTASTIC way to level crafters at points where your leves are either awful, and you're using them on the classes with good leves, or holding them until you get back to a level with good leves, as not only do they provide somewhere between 7 and 10 times the XP of making an item, but they net you scrips as well. And scrips can turn into gear if necessary (when I leveled my crafters through heavensward, getting one to level cap was enough to buy a full set of blue gear for the next class, with about half that many scrips left over).
Custom deliveries every week require collectables, and are, per craft, the best source of scrips and XP in the game.Perhaps if they required a collectible and worked it in with the plot, more people might start doing them?