Cooking, Tailoring, and Farming need better balancing

[Jonesman64]

Lets look at Carrot soup..
it takes 2 carrots: seeds are 150 each.. but if you get an excellent while harvesting it through farming you might get 2 carrots from a single seed. So we'll just call it 150 for this ingredient .
Milk is 30 gold... it drops from something but from where I am in chapter 4 I haven't encountered it

Salt can only be bought for 30 gold from various restaurants.

all in all its about 210 gold to make carrot soup... how much does carrot soup sell for? 70 gold. Even if you craft double you're loosing money.

You can mitigate this buy hunting monsters for the carrots in stead but that takes even longer than farming them and only then it comes out to 10 gold profit.

This would also make farming entirely pointless as the seeds are too expensive and you can't turn a profit selling just the bare crops. Carrots are only valued at 30 gold each.

Crop seeds are just far too expensive to be worth using, which completely ruins the point of the farming skill.

Tailoring is in a weird boat. Its difficult to get materials for. The fiber plants are far too random and the pool for the wild plants you gather from is too large, and there aren't enough plants to get them in large quantities to level it. There doesn't even seem to be a lot of drops from monsters either, I'm always low on animal hide and other materials. Which leads to having to buy materials to train it, or it lags behind.

blacksmith, alchemist, carpenter are easily fed through mining, woodcutting and fishing, and are much better at getting a return on profit.

[chaos915]

Materials get more efficient(more perks) to gather with higher levels. Vegetables can also be sold in Ginormosia in the second area.

If your looking to get profits though, furniture seems to be more efficient. Wood is so much easier to farm than monster mats or metal.

the tropical desk gets 2200 on autocraft II (a perfect one was only about 200 higher than standard, so it was just a waste of time), and with it I was able to buy every blueprint and the furniture(by the time I could build a house I already had a full royal furniture set) and armor from the tutorial area(including the luxury goods store) before riding the dragon. My woodcutting went up a lot from collecting elder palm logs(just run along the beaches, enter the cave, and repeat).

Farming is more for saving money on cooking ingredients, instead of making huge profits on it's own. Even in real life most farmers aren't rolling in dough, except the corpo ones.

[Intern Waffle]

Not every item is intended to profit, it's about rolling things into other things to make those things easier.

[Miioka :)]

you can drop seeds from farming too, and there is plenty of fields to farm in the open world :)

[Tundra_3]

Those 3 are not for profit, the first 2 are for misions or make the character cute, and farming is mostly a support for cooking (and needed to open some paths)