Quote Originally Posted by sagacious View Post
To be a proper crafter/gatherers you need access to all the mats that can be gathered. You need a garden and you need airships and submarines you cannot call yourself an Omni-crafter if you don't have a house and a garden.
Sure you can: after all, you can be an omni-crafter without even being a gatherer. It's just not as profitable.

That said: two of my characters have all their crafting and gathering classes to 90, and my spouse and our friends run our own FC with a house and garden. But my third character is only leveling crafters, not gatherers, and is doing that with GC turnins crafted by my primary character, because there's no need for me to have three omni-crafter/gatherers, I just want the third character to be able to repair gear and do melds.

(There is some small utility in having two omni-gatherers, for things like the grade 3 soils that are on timed nodes and give only one item per node appearance, but once you've gather from those once, you just send your retainers get the mats. )