Need more sources for non-combat Materia.

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While looking more seriously into non-combat gearing, I've noticed a discrepancy between combat and non-combat materia given out by the game. Let's start with a combat example.

Sources for Savage Aim Materia VIII:

• Norvrandt shops for 240 Bicolor Gemstone (FATE ShB currency)
• Crystarium/Eulmore shop for 400 Sack of Nuts (The Hunt ShB currency)
• Il Mheg shop for 6 Fae Fancy (Pixie tribe daily quest; can get 3x/day in addition to the questline rewards)
• Ul'dah vendor, might need BLU Masked Carnivale unlocked first, for 400 Allied Seals (The Hunt, esp the weekly soloable B-rank marks, perhaps from other marks; also from Blue Mage Masked Carnivale first-time and weekly rewards)
• A Tempest MSQ quest
• Crystarium/Eulmore shop for 1 Cracked Stellacluster

Sources for Cracked Stellacluster:

• Various high-end duties (not too sure here, I believe was once Copied Factory but is now just newest stuff?)
• Some duty roulettes, (Adventurer in Need, maybe others)
• Wondrous Tails (trade in commendations)

Ok, now let's look at non-combat example.
Sources for Craftsman's Command Materia VIII:

• Scrip Exchange for 500 White Crafters' Scrip
• Ishgardian Restoration vendor 300 Skybuilders' Scrip
• Two quests from Crystarium crafting chain
• Crystarium/Eulmore shop for 1 Cracked Stellacrystal

Sources for Cracked Stellacrystal:

• Wondrous Tails (trade in commendations)

Hopefully now you can see what I'm getting at The lovely choose-your-own-noncombat-VIII, in the form of Cracked Stellacrystal, is painfully infrequent -- just the weekly Wondrous Tails, really, while there are clearly several dynamic sources for its combative sister.

Instead of enjoying the open world and its high-end dailies and naturally acquiring high-end materia from time to time, a crafter must instead stop and grind the mini-game of either White Scrips or Skybuilders' Scrips. Let's be real, these are mini-games, and we're pigeonholed into acquiring non-combat scrips in this way.

Combat materia torrents are in stark contrast to the non-combat materia droughts. We could certainly use a lot more sources for non-combat materia.