Occasionally, when you’re walking around the cities of Eorzea in FFXIV you’ll spot someone wearing something cool, or see posts online of the insane things people do with housing and wonder where they got it from. Unfortunately the answer is usually they crafted it.
A lot of the game’s coolest looking gear and items can only be made if you engage with the crafting side of the game and usually requires getting all eight crafting jobs to level 90 as a lot of the items you make feed into recipes on other jobs. It’s an absolutely huge undertaking, but if you want the best stuff you’ve got to put the work in… or do you?