Quote Originally Posted by Bready View Post
My entire static owes our crafter friend dozens of gil for the hours they spent making our crafted gear, food and pots! And on top of that WE have to make the effort to get the materia for that gear?! We literally do not have the gil required to teleport, and now Square Enix wants us to participate in the absolutely broken Aether economy to buy the bare minimum required to complete the dps checks? It's absurd, and I believe they should delete materia completely! I play FF14 to escape my crippling debt, not to be further indebted to crafters who spend hours a day pressing two keys on their keyboard!
Or you can just craft yourself and do it for yourself

Also you can do dailies, where u get materia as achievement that you can sell. Level 9 direct hitrate materia (yes level 9 not 10) sells for 12k at morning hours and around 5k in the afternoons.

Another option is to socialize and be friends with people, you would be surprised how helpful some people are for free if you just give them two nice words...

Some people only enjoy crafting in this game and they will always be catered to because YoshiiP said he wants this game to be a palce you go to relax if you want to. The fact that you choose to stress on getting the gear as fast as possible to run savage raid as fast as possible, IS YOURS!

You can choose to wait to run raids when item prices go down, as they usually do.