If top raiders can get gear progression by 2 ways, so should the top crafters!!!
Title says it, why top raiders are able to get their gear progression by raid drops and weekly tomes at the same time but crafters have to sit there only be able to make 2 to 3 pieces a week? This drives away the end game crafting competitions! Server 1st 3star/4star used to be an honor (to support top raiders) and business opportunities. Now you either choose to improve your self progression slowly or make a piece of DoW/M gear (yet to mention that they are 30 ilv below the best gear, the gap used to be only 20 ilv and the stats increase are no longer linear) and list it for 50+mio (only crafters, EX run sellers, materias farmer or RMT would be able to buy it, and except RMT none of the above would bother with it) and also put yourself behind the "crafting race" for furture harder recipes. Maybe those multibillions may be able to bid like 5mio per red token for the sake of having the nice set earlier but what's the point behind it? Raiders need better gear to clear harder content, but there is no more harder content now once you get the crafting gears as the DoW/M gears are on the same difficulty.