Your killing the crafters off why?

[Penguinmayhem]

I don't see why the best gear in the game isn't crafted gear. That doesn't make sense to me considering just how much time and effort goes into making it compared to just doing the same dungeon a couple dozen times hoping that the RNG will simply hand you a piece at random.

[Sibyll]

I don't see why the best gear in the game isn't crafted gear. That doesn't make sense to me considering just how much time and effort goes into making it compared to just doing the same dungeon a couple dozen times hoping that the RNG will simply hand you a piece at random.

It's because they believe that having the best gear be crafted, and likely purchasable on the market, would encourage RMT because you could just buy the BiS gear. I actually like that the best gear is dropped in Coil; however, the issue lies in the fact that the Tome gear is insanely easy to obtain. Why would you spend all the resources farming the Philosophy Tomes and Gil to fully meld craft ilvl 70, when you could get a mix of Darklight and AF2 gear that would be about as good. CT drops have made it even worse.

If crafted gear didn't have to compete with Darklight gear in terms of Tome efficiency then more people would gear up in that to supplement their i55 and i60 dungeon drop gear until they can get myth tome gear. It's hard for the market to compete with tome gear when it's on par or better than the crafted gear, especially when the crafted gear requires tomes to begin with.