Originally Posted by Reichter  |
| And yeah, I've heard about Cooking/Fishing and their usefulness, but I'm talking about Gear for the later levels and such. I saw Smithing and it seemed better suited for a Tank type. But again, I don't know much about the game :| |
Making your own gear is kind of impractical in FFXI. You have to have considerable levels in several skills in order to make most pieces, and the cost of leveling the various skills in order to make your own armor would be better spent just buying them from NPCs or the AH for considerably less.
The same goes for weapons, for the most part. The market is just really, really saturated, so new crafters are pretty much SOL, to be quite blunt.