Quote Originally Posted by Seleni View Post
There’s always the officially sanctioned “bots”, aka retainers, doing the gathering.

Personally as gatherer I like not having to compete for nodes, and as crafter I love being able to send retainers out to gather stuff for me. But the virtually unlimited supply of mats is probably one of the reasons why inflation in this game seems out of control.
Imagine being able to turn raw materials in for mounts etc that are better than the current scrip stuff. If there was something that ended up being more appealing than the Gil I could earn selling ore/logs or ingots/lumber/gems that I could earn by turning in large amounts of materials (not finished goods like rings), I'd be all about that. Until then, I'm going to be making as much money as I can on the off chance I'm actually able to procure a house plot. It's good to dream, right?