With all respect, but I'm going to speak a little about your worries with the direction the cash shop is getting and so....

I know here a lot of people, (surprisingly) thinks this all is normal and we players should empty our wallets, but, uh, okay...

I just noticed something important aside the P2W(OR however you want to call the fact people can obtain advantages in-game thanks to their real money) and is the change of... Hm... Let's say, their way to develop?:

- Before we had it so crafters were useful only for vanity stuff. They were the ones in previous patches that took everything that was needed for making certain recipes etc and craft-sell the vanity stuff... From now on, since cash shop came, that function of the crafters have been almost vanquished, now vanity stuff is no more concerning crafting classes, at least not at all, now cash shop is...

So... What decided SE to do now that crafters were loosing their main function? Give them back more vanity stuff and remove it from cash shop? No, give them some utility in the new relic quest, because that was the only way to give crafters utility without damaging the integrity of the cash shop....

(Note, important note: This is only the point of view of a poor noob, only my perception, I'm not saying it is exactly like that. The lack of answers for developers is what make me do my own points of view until we obtain some official responses regarding this.)