Quote Originally Posted by Skyhound View Post
People come up with all of these complicated solutions, yet it won't solve anything. Especially since we already have dungeons that drop crafting materials (WP). The real solution is in fixing the prices. There is no reason high-end crafted gear to be so expensive, it isn't competitive with DL or even Myth gear. 200k for one piece? The time it would take me to earn that with raiding alone would net me enough Myth tomes to not even bother making that money. Gatherers have to lower their prices, for Crafters to lower their prices, so Raiders will even think about looking at that gear.
I don't think you understand the mechanics of this. "Raiders" are the ones raiding WP/AK for philo mats to get tome mats to sell to the crafters. The philo mats are about 60-80% of the final cost, while gatherer's mats are about 10% of it or less. So if you think the gear is too expensive, tell the raiders to lower their pricing, but since you are a raider, it would come down to telling yourself to take a paycut.

Also, you said crafted gear isn't competitive with DL gear, which is true, it's actually better than it when melded. It's not better than most myth/allagan but it's readily available and you don't need to wait weeks for it. I hear some pieces of crafted are BiS, such as gryphonskin rings for tanks.

I kind of like OP's idea, and I kind of don't at the same time. It would give crafters an extra thing to do, but it seems it would be very similar to the way melding is now and won't have much benefit to crafters. Since more ppl are lvling crafting, getting hired for melds is becoming more rare since ppl meld themselves, or have friends/fc/ls members do it for them, or even random crafters that do melds for free. Since this is one piece of equipment to be crafted, the crafter can't charge much for time. Since the person requesting the craft has the materials, the crafter can't charge for materials. Only thing crafter can really charge for is the effort leveling the craft, but like I stated, alot more ppl are lvling crafts so crafting is becoming a dime a dozen.