If you don't already have the crafting shield complete to stage 4, which i can see you don't because you said almost capped, it isn't worth it to lvl a craft.
Outside of doing it to have something to do or for completions sake, it is gonna be cheaper to just buy what you want.
The crafters that have the completed shields have control on the markets and it will be impossible to make profits.
Oh hey dude, I recoigse you from my sever lol.
I thought that may be the case, but I don't see how that you can't make any profit, people with capped/sheilds may have a higher advantage to some degree, but crafting HQ is based on probability anyway. Likewise, I can see how the market is competitive. I wouldn't have levelled the craft so high in the first place, but being a returning player and half way through it, I thought it was worth it for completion sake with the bonus of making gil. I'm not asking to make 100 millions+ here, more making 100k profit synths possibly whilst im waiting for decent shouts etc - I get that from stones, but spamming synths 99 times then npcing just isn't worth it in my opinion.