message to all crafter/gatherers

[KurohNeko]

No, I'm not wrong about not needing a garden to be an omni-crafter.
I don't craft solely to make gil; why would anyone, when gil flows so readily to anyone who is active?
I have more gil than I know what to do with anyway, even after spending literally millions of gil on rare mats to craft glam items (e.g. a varsity skirt and a boulevardier's ruffled shirt for my fem roe). Glam items for myself and as gifts for friends, not for resale.

I craft and gather partly for convenience, but mainly for the same reason I do anything else in FFXIV: because I simply enjoy it. After all, it's just a game, and enjoying it should be the main reason you play.

You don't know true joy till you grow you some glaze nuts and find that the nuts don't give seeds so you have to repeat the month long process of growing them again to harvest like 4-5 of them. That's why they and Thav onions cost so much. We put a lot of work into growing em.

[Silverbane]

You don't know true joy till you grow you some glaze nuts and find that the nuts don't give seeds so you have to repeat the month long process of growing them again to harvest like 4-5 of them. That's why they and Thav onions cost so much. We put a lot of work into growing em.

My spouse and I grow our own Thav onions. We're intimately familiar with why they cost so much.

Oh you mean the most lucrative items in the game aka rare minions and furnishings that make money and are the entire point of being a crafter?

The entire point of you being a crafter, maybe. But its not why I'm one.
That said, being able to craft my own glam items for way less than the market price for them is pretty enjoyable. And painfully easy, for those of us who remember crafting from back in the ARR days, when progress steps could fail ...