Why wasn't the game designed like this?

[Jinko]

Give crafters the recipes for ilvl 70 gears. Hell, give them the ability to MAKE the Darklight gear. I have no problem with that. But you'd better damn well make sure the requirements to make it are just as time consuming as running AK/CM/TP/WP/AV/DD/SV for Tomes. An Alternative to the current system, NOT a replacement is the balance we need.

You do realise that we can already make ilvl 70 gear, except it takes 4-5 times the tomes to make than a standard DL set. (certainly not fair at all)

Besides if you want to forgo crafting, then thats fine, but if you want the best armour you should have to pay for it to be crafted IMO, you as a battle class could farm the items in the dungeons and make money that way, so you could then later afford said gear.

But meh as long as you are ok, that's all that matters right.

As I said previously I don't want to see all dungeon gear removed that would be stupid, but right now there is far too much emphasis on dungeon and quests gear and crafting and gathering are nothing more than a hobby.

[Aicasia]

Besides if you want to forgo crafting, then thats fine, but if you want the best armour you should have to pay for it to be crafted IMO, you as a battle class could farm the items in the dungeons and make money that way, so you could then later afford said gear.

All they need to do is make the crafted gear cost less material-wise. There is no reason the "best" gear should be from crafting, and if it is it should be untradeable, much like Primal Mooncloth or the other tailoring mastery sets in TBC. The i70 crafted gear is already better than darklight, it just costs way too much to make and needs to be brought down to the same amount of time and effort it would take to get darklight. I can sympathize, but that idea is horrible unless its automatically bound to you and can't be sold, it would just make crafters have too much hold otherwise.