Heya!

I'm writing this as a casual player who wants to experience anything in the world of Eorzea, and I try to keep my Hand classes over 20 so I can be auto-sufficient on repairs.
If I have to go to an adventure, I take my axe and my bronze/iron nuggets for when I need a repair, and go kill stuff.
Even that, my armorer is not so high, so when my armor deteriorates, I have to ask somebody in the world to do my repairs, which is also fun! I trade them 10'000 gil at least for my equipment and the repairers are really happy about it.

I go take a repair from the NPC when I have to hurry up for sticking with my LS/Team mates. Saying that in this game the gil is too much of a piece of cake, which means it's not a problem, lowering the price of it will keep players with even more money, money that the players will not know what to do with, and the gil will lose importance and valor.

See ya!