Grinding 40-50 is break even or profit for every DoH currently.
Hamlet made it this way. Problem is your initial investment.
Only DoH I'd say can turn break even or profit outside of militia items is ALC & CUL
Mega-ethers, and buttons in a blanket are both money synths.
Don't know about other servers but Balmung's Economy is shit right now. Stacks of materials to sell and nobody's buying shit (cept for militia stuff)