Crafting Needs a Place in Endgame Raiding

[Zumi]

This argument goes both ways. There's little motivation to specialize in a class that gathers resources to create items (gathering) or a class that specializes in the actual creation of those items (crafting) when players can get equipment that is roughly equivilent or better with next to no effort by repeating dungeons.

The only way to keep both high level combat content and crafting/gathering relevant in terms of progression would be to have desirable items come from both. Right now it's severely skewed in favor of only one, and the state of the current economy, crafting and gathering jobs is what it is as a result.

It's like I said I made 30m since the game came out crafting casually not even hard core. The ability to make gil is definitely motivator to level all your crafts up.

Crafting also may be even more important this time around due to the fact tome gear is only ilvl100 only coil 6-9 gear is 110. In a lot of cases 5 meld 90 will be better then a ilvl 100 non crafted.