Quote Originally Posted by Silverbane View Post
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. )
A garden provides cross breeding. Crossbreeding provide numerus gill making possibilities so your wrong there.
Thavarian onions is just one example. Crafters need to grow voidrake and Althyk Lavender seeds this will provide an enormous bounty of Items from turn-ins at the apt building or junkmongerers so your wrong again there. Where are you going to get potters stones? how can you make exteriors without a workshop? exteriors at this time garner 10's of millions of gil so your wrong again and again and again. I not advocating the breakage of any FC but I am asking crafter/gatherers to chose themselves over anything for the future of your craft