I'll compare and contrast my experiences.
I played FFXI for over a year.
Durring that time, I lvl'd cooking to 96+1, alch to 60 and the rest around 30 average. I played enough to make me lose my tan.
Items used by self - a bunch
Items sold on ah - also a bunch
Est gil lost skilling up - 5 mil+
Est gil profit - 3-4 mil or less.
Thank god for gardening.
I've been playing WoW for 5 weeks or so now.
Durring that time I've gotten 300 tribal leatherworking, 300 skinning, 225 cooking, 275 first aid, 140 mining and 150 enchanting. I play maybe 3-4 hours a day, with enough time to maintain a non-translucent skin color.
Items/enchants used by self - a decent ammount
Items sold on ah - pbbly ~65%
Est gold spent skilling up - 75g
Est gold profit - 400g - 500g
WoW is MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to skill up in, and almost all the items are useful to someone. You can also do batches of items all at once (making 40 silk bandages? Ok, I need... Silk.. hmm how bout that. *buys some silk cloth from the AH* Now to craft it... NO PROB! click here, click there go get a soda and by the time you come back, its all done!)
FFXI you make alot of junk items to skill up, and also blow a lot of gil on crystals. (Lets see, I have to have to make pie dough, because theres none in stock so I'll need to make some butter.
So thats 12 ice crystals, 12 rock salt and 12 selbina milk, then 12 water crystals 12 rock salt 12 non-stackable flour and 12 of the 18-bajilion butters I just made... Then I can finaly make my pies with 12 fire crystals, 12 pie dough, 12 thundermellon, 12 maple sugar, and 12 cinnimon.
That makes 36 synths I had to sit there and click every gd ingredient into the recipie about every 30 sec. And all for 1 skill lvl IF I'm lucky. God forbid the AH be out of one ingredient in your recipie or you may be making a 30+min trip cross-country to find it. I could go on more, but I think you see my point.)
Over all, personally I enjoy WoW's crafting system much more than FFXI's because it's so very easy, enjoyable and benificial as opposed to being stressful, costly, time consuming and generally worthless like FFXI's.
I'm not anti-ffxi, but in this particular battle WoW whups its **** hands down. Just my
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Edited for improper useage of the letter "a" in the middle of a sentance. Gimme a break, I havent slept since yesterday. lol Edited, Wed Sep 14 07:53:06 2005 by jklotros