@ the OP to me it seems like SE hates Crafting as they are not trying to do anything to help. Did you read what Hvinire said? So they think that when more players get housing the "Furniture" market will pick up. Are you kidding me I have bought or made every housing Furniture except for some of the Extreme HQ stuff and didn't spend more than 150k. Its a joke if players plan on getting a FC house or own personal house buy the Materials or the Completed pieces now. I don't think there will be a market for Furniture until Personal Housing.

Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
Once free company housing becomes a bit more widespread we expect the demand for furniture to increase



Quote Originally Posted by Skyhound View Post
Yoshi did say that crafted great will not be better than raid gear. His reasoning is because he does not want people to stick to created gear in lieu of dungeon running.

However, I believe this point was misconstrued by many. No one gear set is BiS. To get BiS, you need a mix of Allagan, Myth, and XM gear. I think eventually a few crafting pieces will end up as BiS.
As for this, I made a post about Abjurations It takes Crafting, Gathering, and Endgame content and brings them together to make gear that would be some BIS. I say in the post they could alternate ABJ's with CoB/CT patches so they wouldn't always have to be BIS.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...09#post1764709