kainsilv wrote:
I have a couple Disciples of the Hand classes to 50 and I make money just fine crafting HQ stuff and melding materia. I don't have hours to run dungeons as a casual player and selling items has made me millions.
That's the thing though, in the past, when not everyone had a Level 50 crafter, or rather, not everyone has all the crafts at 50... You could use it to make a decent chunk of gil.
In the post-2.1 period, that just doesnt happen anymore. People arent buying anything, And when they do, there's 30 other people there to undercut you and make the exact same thing to the point of ruining the value into the single digits of gil.
If i need a set of gear, i dont buy it off the boards or buy the materials for it, i take 10 seconds of warping around and gathering here and there, maybe shooting a monster or two, and i can make it for free. That goes for a lot of other people.
And well, ofcourse at the rate at which Philo Tomes are gathered, who would spend the now 70k gil on a single piece of Darksteel gear, when they can buy the exact same piece with even better stats with Philo Tomes after one Duty Roulette in CM or Prae? The things that used to make you money are dead. And the things you can still make -some- money now require you to farm all the materials for it yourself, or it is a loss. And then still you have crazy amounts of competition.
Either run dungeons, or take up a gathering job and collect things other people find a pain to get for minimal profit. Crafting has it's best days behind it.