Quote Originally Posted by VeyaAkemi View Post
It's 100% something I heard repeatedly when I started, along with "Don't do Crafting on free trial it's nearly impossible", which also turned out to be wrong in my opinion, it is entirely possible they meant "best" with a number of different qualifiers, maybe it's the best time investiment because it's something that once it's set up it's perpetually yours, short of new gear/expansion releasing, so you can fairly quickly get back into it after a break, maybe it's the "best" relative to time invested, but it still gets repeated extremely often.
Looking at your second comment, I I don't think either of us should be surprised that the first comment also was made in error.

The key to wealth is always finding a niche that you can exploit and the ability to get those wares to market. Some of the most consistent moneymakers are tomestone materials, scrip materials, gardening materials, anything that is annoying to farm (leathers, uncommon mounts, items from Eureka etc), or simply an unexploited market (one good example was the housing market after the new wards...and likely the housing market once the current lotteries end since demolition was enabled again.) Even GC turnin rewards (coke and such) are fairly reliable money as Free Companies have an endless need of such things.

Crafting just gives you more options. With the sheer number of existing omnicrafters making substantial money is very difficult by crafting alone. You need to be smart, lucky, and do your homework if you want to get ahead. Always have.