WTH LakshmiFollow

I agree, Willow. I also notice the increasing number of people wearing things like Noble's Tunic, Vermillion Cloak, HQ elemental staves, etc, purchased from Auction House. These have always been big money items, mostly because it took a lot of hard work to acquire the materials and craft. But even as the prices soar HIGHER there are more and more people able to afford these things straight off the AH (the concern being more so -outside- of the growing number of HNM shells who can acquire the items to have things like these crafted for their members and the growing number of high level crafters able to turn out/purchase these items), when a while back when I started it was rare to see (I remember distinctly a gap of several months in the Noble's Tunic history, as it was my favorite item to window shop for at the time before I had an end-game LS).

The players are getting richer and richer, either through experience or through buying gil online. And I would HATE to start this game right now as both a player trying to afford armor and as a player interested in the craft system. It almost seems pointless unless you can afford regular trips to the gil store. I wish SE would find a way to streamline the gil flow or make it so newer players can progress in the game without having to buy gil.

...you make buying gil sound okay.
Umm... no.

Yes inflation has gone up, and it has gone up bad. I don't see why new players will have problems starting this game. Please remember that while inflation has gone up for items such as vermy, sh, hauby, etc, lower items such as fire crystals, silk, beastman blood, etc has gone up in value as well. Although people that start this game will not craft right away, there are many ways to gather gil, ie mining, logging, etc. New player or not, there are ways to gather gil, its whether you wanna break a sweat and try, or take the "gimp" way and buy gil.

Just to prove how easy it is to make gil, one of the people in my LS Mentioned they needed Jujitsu - Gi (body armor) for their MNK. I offered to help them as I really wasn't busy, and seeing as how the armor went for 2 mil at AH I assumed it was going to be camped heavily. Luckily, when I got there there wasn't a SINGLE PERSON around. I killed the spawn mobs and waited for about 15 minutes, and he pops. I get the claim, (still noone around) I die, (lost about 1200 exp). By this time I figured someone else had the claim, but I wanted to make sure. I RUN back to Davoi (from jeuno) and the mob is still there unclaimed. I make the kill and get the Jujitsu - Gi item first kill.

Now this is a perfect example of an easy way to make gil, as this is only a lvl 40 mob, so you could probably get a party of people to kill it.

I actually ended up selling this to an LS member for pretty cheap, so I didn't get the 2 mil, just wanted to state how easy it is to get gil if people would just set their mind to it.

(I would have given it to them free if they would have helped me camp it, but since they didn't I charged them for the lost EXP :D)

Edited, Fri Jan 20 13:51:07 2006 by Toioiz

Edited, Fri Jan 20 15:38:07 2006 by Toioiz

Good to hear no one camps him, i need 1 for my upcomming nin

omg /cry