Its happened :/ - resorted to new character for Gil.

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Ridiculous. HQ repeatable leves not only give you triple money, they give you triple XP. Crafters use these to level their classes up - a lot. It's like legalized, power-leveling crack for crafters, starting in the middle range of their leves. That's a lot of new money being injected by the crafters into the economy, and yaknow what I'm going to do when I've topped out my original crafts? Get started on other crafts and do exactly the same thing. I need the XP WAY more than I need the money and will end up doing hundreds of these leves.

Go hunt some monsters, to get me the drops, which are materials I need to level my crafts up. If you put a bit of time into researching what's on the AH and how much it's selling for and how fast it's selling, you can make quite a bit of money. Don't worry about the 5% fees taking money out of the economy - I'll put it all back in for ya.

Again, this is not about personal monetary gain. It's about the server economy as a whole. I use leves to level crafts too, I made the argument solely on a monetary basis, and it's not a lot of money, not compared to the absurd gil sinks that exists at endgame.

For the record, I have plenty of gil, it's not hard to get -- yet.