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[kaynide]

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.

You can easily level all crafting jobs using leves to 50, then deliveries every week plus leves as they pop, then finally the crafting quest lines in later expac towns and beast tribes.

It is only expensive if you are in a rush. Heck, if you really don’t care you can actually make a lot of money leveling crafting.

As with most things in life, it’s a function of time and money. Faster will (almost) always be more expensive.

[Rolder50]

You can easily level all crafting jobs using leves to 50, then deliveries every week plus leves as they pop, then finally the crafting quest lines in later expac towns and beast tribes.

It is only expensive if you are in a rush. Heck, if you really don’t care you can actually make a lot of money leveling crafting.

As with most things in life, it’s a function of time and money. Faster will (almost) always be more expensive.

I didn't mean leveling. I meant getting the gear needed to do high end crafts, not to mention melding that gear. I've wasted tons of money on failed melds, personally.

[kaynide]

I didn't mean leveling. I meant getting the gear needed to do high end crafts, not to mention melding that gear. I've wasted tons of money on failed melds, personally.

Gotcha; that's kinda more of the same though. The gear creep eventually makes all the recipes trivial to make, so it just boils down to whether you NEED the crafted item here-and-now or if you can just wait a bit.

If you're leveling strictly to have the bleeding edge stuff for raids, etc then agreed- not worth your time/effort at all.

[Rolder50]

Gotcha; that's kinda more of the same though. The gear creep eventually makes all the recipes trivial to make, so it just boils down to whether you NEED the crafted item here-and-now or if you can just wait a bit.

If you're leveling strictly to have the bleeding edge stuff for raids, etc then agreed- not worth your time/effort at all.

But when the stuff becomes trivial to make, it also becomes trivial to just buy off the marketboard. Which was my original point, there's no reason to bother with crafting other then the convenience of self repair and self meld.

[kaynide]

But when the stuff becomes trivial to make, it also becomes trivial to just buy off the marketboard. Which was my original point, there's no reason to bother with crafting other then the convenience of self repair and self meld.

This is true; the only reason I personally bother with crafting is the convenience of self repair.