(12-09-2014, 10:10 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: I fully expect the costs to crash once anyone and everyone realizes there's "Free money" to be had.
There is a decided cost of entry, though: The allagan resin and the lake crystal and I think two others outright cost 100k each. The bombard cores, as referenced in the patch notes, are 20k GC seals each. The Springwaters are 1600 soldier each, and two of the quests require them up front.
I'm pretty much hoping the crash will have hit and hard once I finally get to that stage. I don't buy things as willy-nilly on my main, but I'm still reeling a bit from the materia purchases, even if I did cheap out in the end and slot a good dozen Accuracy ones in the end. I can only hope my coffers have refilled appropriately enough by that point.
As for the other costs of entry, I've been using my GC seals to buy Coke for both putting up on the AH for cash-money and for the childish amusement in imagining it as a complex drug deal going down. Just stop doing that and all the aetheric items and greens I get from my roulettes will result in GC seal accumulation easily enough. And Soldiery isn't that difficult to get, and I'll probably just be letting it pile up while I use Poetics to outfit my other classes now that SCH's square, so the Springwaters won't be a problem.
It was just the idea of having to desynth or level the crafting classes needed that was getting me riled. If there's a workaround like this, I'm less miffed. Even if that workaround is still "boatloads of money."
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