Smallclothes (An item suggestion for the developers)

[DracotheDragon]

...you really hate crafters so much you'll demand that they lose the ONE thing that they do best? It's bad enough you don't need crafters for anything important, let us have our non-essential vanity market.

*looks at gear that increases stats, food that assists in dungeons, housing items that can only be gained from crafters, looks at unique clothing sets you only get if you craft them* yea a few vanity items for PVE players isn't going to harm the monopoly you have with the market bored. some vanity items acquired without the use of crafters would be nice, like the glasses. theres so meny crafted glasses for vanity but only basic spectacles for pve. i find it funny how the goldsmith guild dons sell the glasses.

[Urthdigger]

*looks at gear that increases stats, food that assists in dungeons, housing items that can only be gained from crafters, looks at unique clothing sets you only get if you craft them* yea a few vanity items for PVE players isn't going to harm the monopoly you have with the market bored. some vanity items acquired without the use of crafters would be nice, like the glasses. theres so meny crafted glasses for vanity but only basic spectacles for pve. i find it funny how the goldsmith guild dons sell the glasses.

Aside from food, those are all rather optional (Barring materia melded shenanigans, best stuff comes from dungeons/raids anyway). And as others have said, there's plenty of non-crafted vanity options out there. The fact that the items you WANT are crafted is perhaps kind of the point: The thing about a market is that it's only the items people want that matter.

Plain and simple, you just have to accept that crafters have an advantage in certain areas. It's neither cheap nor easy to be a crafter... you'd think they'd get SOMETHING for the effort.