Quote Originally Posted by Anders View Post
Aside: Because I don't have enough gil to buy materials, I trained as a Botanist and collected all of the Moko Grass and Cotton Boll needed to be able to grind thread and cloth.
Moko and Bolls cost 2 gil each at the vendors so I but those to do all my leveling till 20, and spend maybe 2K max, probably less once you factor in the small amount of gil you get vendoring the items you're making to level.

Your comment about bonus XP is spot on and it's amazing how well you can do with synths +3 or more levels above you, and by not using quick synthing and doing quality increases the XP per Moko or Boll used is even better.

This happy time ends at 20 of course when you start needing Diremite Webs .. and 30 when you need Fleece and have to compete with the RMT (and non-RMT) farmbots having a near monopoly on the few sheep that drop it: one server I play on a stack costs 40k+ due to RMT and player bots.