The crafted ilvl70 gear is crap compared to darklight set. even if they have materia slots. It is still not comparable to the darklight.

The only way for it to be on par with the darklight stat is you have to craft high quality ilvl70 items. The the item required for high quality is 9pcs of the item that cost 125 philo stones.

So yeah, you cant really get ilvl70 gears without spamming ak or castrum. And sadly those have no gears cant run both because people are now requiring players to be geared in order to run with them.

Duty Finder is not an option out of 10duty finder group i had for ak only 3 managed to finish and took 1hour 15mins

so the players who just got to 50 are basically stuck. Cant run AK because they need gears and to have gears you need ak