Quote Originally Posted by Maeka View Post
No, more like it's high end crafters charging ludicrous prices on the MB because they run a monopoly and before 5.1, it was rather difficult to DIY because of the ridiculous amount of work it took to get crafters levelled and crap.

And then, they were always resistant to changes, it was like "I GOT UP HERE YOU CAN TOO!" (yeah, but it takes 10x more work to level any DoH class than it does to level a couple adventuring classes)
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and i dont think anyone here is convincing anyone else to change their point of view. With that said, i have to object to the "10x more work" part of your statement. Using just custom deliveries, facet hand ins, and doing GC turn ins only on easy days i leveled up all 11 crafting and gathering classes from 70 to 80 during the first month of 5.0's release. Looking back to stormblood it was just custom deliveries, class quests, and the easy days worth of GC hand ins and i similarly had 11 classes from 60-70 in 3-4 weeks. I started post HW, and getting each non-fishing class from 1-60 took about 2 weeks(still using an easy mode of ixali dailies, class quests, gc turn ins, and the occasional leve - i had them all done before moogles became a thing). Fishing took me most of 2 years, but i haaaaaaate fishing. None of that is hard or even super time consuming. Certainly not 10x anything.