LogFAQs > #960775445

Gathering is kind of boring but very, very lucrative for the amount you have to put into it (decently big returns for not a lot of cost), and if you pair it with crafters then you save tons of money on leveling those too.

Crafting is fun in that it is basically a resource management puzzle you have to figure out how to solve with the abilities you have every time you craft, mostly (there are ways to automate easy things and macros for endgame stuff once you meet certain stat requirements). Crafting is what gives you the big bux, but also requires tons of investment of either money (if you buy mats) or time (if you gather mats).

Once you get crafting to higher levels and sell stuff people want you can make like 2000%+ (not a typo) profit off things sometimes if you watch the marketboard and fill a need.

If you're planning on leveling crafting btw I recommend you just do Ishgard restoration, maybe supplement it with some crafting beast tribes. Ishgard restoration is the best though, and you can level gathering at the same time.

Fishing is unique from the other gatherers btw in that while some stuff you catch is useful for crafting (mostly for culinarian mats or desynth) its mostly just kind of its own game. It's kinda boring but appeals to a specific subset of people, more or less just like real fishing. It has some complexity to it with like mooching and such which is kind of fun sometimes though- but again just like real fishing is mostly just sitting around and waiting anyway.

Also fishing is stupid easy to level with Ocean Fishing. Seriously, its so fast.