Legendary Week

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Grinding for materials and gold is not profitable.

Where do you think literally all of the ni gold came from?

Drops are free money, until you realize that you want to craft something, like your tome.

Do crafted items not retain value? Can tomes not be traded for legendaries?

and if it does, the gold value is usually above the price of the item if you were to trade for 1 or more items which that person wanted.

Yes it's called convenience and there's multinational billion dollar companions irl based off of it...though pure gold is more convenient than most things, I don't know where you're getting this "usually" concept from when most people prefer pure cash.