Materia System

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I think, though, that the point is everyone in XIV can make money in different ways, depending on how they choose to do it. They don't have to just take part in the ridiculous NM farming that existed there in order to actively participate in the buying/selling of the economy.

There should never just be one way to do much of anything in a good MMO, and the fact that crafting, gathering, 'and' combat classes can all perform this aspect in their own different way is a good thing.

This.

XI's issue was that outside of farming mobs for hours, crafting for hours to skill up then pray your synth is an HQ, staying around an area waiting for NMs to pop and camping the crafting guild shops to buy out their inventory to resell said inventory in the AH at higher prices, there wasn't much one could do to earn money. The mistake with leves is that they were semi-sold as a focus point of the game, whereas I see it as a tiny part of a much bigger world. Not to mention it is backed up by game lore, for whatever that is worth.