We need more ways to make gold in this game.

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crafters right now are starving artists!

I had to shorten your post for posting sake but here is my reply to all of it.

While there certainly CAN be more ways to make money (I would be one for bigger gil bonsues for crafting leves) crafting isn't going to be profitable in the short run. Until you start crafting late game items you are going to be a starving artist. There is no way around that bcause to say any different would lead to the opposite problem of too much Gil and prices skyrocketing for simple stuff. What we need is a delicate balance at both ends so that I can't for say become level 15 in a crafting class and just use it to make a quick 2,500 Gil a day or something ridiculous off mats that cost <200 Gil. Increasing the price of selling items back to the vendor or adding better vendor trash would be more amicable solutions in addition to tweaking leves. Leves being one of the few ways SE can control flow of easy XP and Gil.