Quote Originally Posted by Arkista View Post
When ARR was released we had Dark Light and Crafted gear of the same ilvl. Don't see why they couldn't have added some ilvl160-170 crafted gear to go along with Doman Gear.
I'm not 100% sure, I'm just going by later updates in ilvl... But didn't they release the i70 crafted gear a bit later on? 2.1 or something, I mean. Just like they released i90 crafted gear when you could get i100/110 gear, and i110 crafted when you could get i120/130.

So to add crafted on par with highest gear level right from the start doesn't seem too reasonable to me =) Seems a lot better to add it later when it's possible (but still slightly tricky) to get higher ilvl gear from raids or limited tomestones.