Thank you so much! You are great help, to be honest.... gather is not an option for me right now as my time is limited in playing the game and I'd like to get the item for the relic quest asap. I found Karakul cost about 130-400gil each which isn't bad and lots of them getting listed (managed to get 99 of them).

As for crafting... for quick feature it gives me about 1k exp per craft. However when I do it manually I gain about 3k-6k exp depending on the HQ luck.

I was talking to people in my FC and they had ago on me for leveling fast and taking things really quick. I ended up not saying a word after because no point arguing that at high levels its harder. They keep telling me its not (they are low levels) ah well what ever. Let them finding that out themselves.