A few expansions into playing Final Fantasy XIV, I decided to try leveling one of the game’s many crafting classes. For one, I’d heard a fair amount of FFXIV’s strongest weapons and most stylish gear were locked behind them. On top of that, I’d found the adventuring life to be expensive. Sure, running dungeons and completing quests always paid gil, but rarely enough to cover the costly cycle of purchasing the new gear and weapons I’d need as I levelled up.To get more news about Buy FFXIV Gil Cheap, you can visit lootwowgold official website.

No, crafting was where the real money was. FFXIV has its own in-game free market called the Market Board, where players can buy and sell items and gear at their own prices using gil as currency. Filled with excitement, I thought it’d be easy to pick up a trade and make a name for myself as an artisan and merchant. I soon found it to be anything but simple.

Final Fantasy XIV has eight crafting and three gathering classes. Gatherers can forage for materials by either fishing, mining, or reaping crops. As for the crafters, weavers work with cloth, goldsmiths craft jewelry, alchemists brew potions, and so on. I thought it’d be as easy as just picking a particular craft and honing it, but my adventure in crafting quickly became increasingly complicated.
At first crafting materials were easy to obtain, purchasable from NPC merchants. But material procurement for one job ended up requiring the skills of six other classes. Let’s say I’m a weaver looking to craft a level 50 caster’s robe. I’d need a specific kind of thread, cloth, leather, and metal ingots. A weaver can spin thread and make cloth, but to make those threads you need to forage for cotton as a botanist, one of the gathering classes. Leather is made from animal hides that drop from enemies in battle and has to be crafted by a leatherworker. Metal ore is found through mining, and processed into ingots by blacksmiths.

Unless you’re playing with generous friends progressing at least as quickly as you, you’ve only really got two options to progress: You can level every crafting and gathering class simultaneously. Or you can buy the necessary materials off the Market Board, more than likely at inflated prices.

Early in my journey, I foolishly attempted the former, leveling every crafting class, save for culinarian (so while I could brew elixirs and forge a mighty spear, I had no idea how to create a boiled egg). I told myself it’d be cheaper, but soon enough, I realized I just didn’t have the time to spend hours foraging and switching back and forth between classes just to synthesize the basic materials I’d need to make a little top hat.

So I broke down and started buying my materials on the market. While I was happy to pay other players to hit the rocks and reap the crops I didn’t have time for, I also found that they frequently charged exorbitant prices for my needed materials. I mean, 3000 gil for a two-pack of Dravanian Spring Water? Outrageous.