Quote Originally Posted by VelKallor View Post
4 star food. 4 star alkahests. 4 star tinctures. 4 star housing items .

I can craft it ALL, which means I am NOT wasting gil on stuff I can make for myself.

I just made 30 HQ dex tinctures for a friend, which would have cost her a MINT on the MB. She is progging savage, you should have seen her face when I handed her free food and tinctures. I can also make my own ingredients / components for these items.

i fail to see the benefit in spending gil on stuff you can make for yourself.

Crafters are self sufficient, which is a HUGE plus as you arent paying through the nose for overpriced MB items. Even on Kujata the gear prices for Diadochos are still within the 100k mark per item, so a full set will set you back close to one million gil for one job gearset ALONE.

Then theres the fact that crafting also provides you with materia and scrips, so you can pentameld your own crafter gear, buy food ingredients , thats another expense you no longer have. I pentamelded and it cost me, yes, but the vast majority was materia I already had in stock and ready to go.

Pentamelding is expensive, granted, but its a long term investment which has already proved its worth and paid for itself long since.

So: are the relics worth the time and effort? Hell yes.
The downside, of course, is the obscene amount of time and money needed to GET a crafting job to the point where you can comfortably make end game consumables. Between the opportunity cost of tome and unspoiled node materials, materia, money spent on crafting food, its expensive. I wonder, does getting the relic tool require near pentamelded equipment to actually achieve? I bet it does, not that I've checked.

I have other ways to make gil that don't need crafting, so I just do a little of that now and then and I'm solid.