So what's the purpose of making i95 crafted weapons so hard to make?

[Surian]

I understand your point of view, and that many others feel this way, but you are wrong. I've made over 10 million gil (profit) since 2.3 because I do take the time to do this. There is definitely a market out there, there is just very little supply of people who actually want to go through what's needed to do it (at least on my server). Relevance is a subjective term anyway. We might not agree on how we define relevant.

I appreciate your explaination of how you see things, but as a crafter, i would like to be able to make gear that actually gets used. I too can make money as profit if i so want to, through the means of making glamour gear or furniture, perhaps even lower level gear that people use through their journey to level 50.

But being able to make i95 weapons as your best "top" craft that cannot even be used as a stepping stone due to the rarity of its ingredients, and the prices following that should one wish to simply purchase them, is flawd. Especially so when far superior alternatives are free. It's the Darklight/Darksteel debate all over again we had back in 2.1. One could spend a good portion of their money to make something (darksteel), and put it on the market boards for a lot of gil hoping it sells to a person interested in it. But that same person could just as well run three dungeons and purchase gear (darklight) with points for "free", with minimal effort, no hoops to jump through and potentially better stats.

In the case of i95 weaponry. Why would anyone buy them outside of glamour purposes, when the amount of work one needs to put into them makes them priceless. When one could just as well do a Coil, Primal battle or spend 1300 soldiery on a superior-in-every-way weapon they can upgrade even further. Not to mention mere relics that every person at those levels should have by now.

I know we differ on the subject of relevance, and i surely am not asking to be allowed to make gear better than that obtained from todays elite content. But even if the gear you could make today was the same in power and stats as the i110 weapons, the diffirence in ease-of-accessability between the two of them is still rediculous. You would be looking at an investment of a few hours for a couple of weeks, opposed to a magnitude of millions. But lets not forget that it's not the same or better, it's several stages worse than most easy alternatives.

Crafting, as a means of making armor/weapons people want to use, is dead if this system keeps up.