This patch dropped the ball hard

[Lexxuk]

Still in order to get those items you had to grind top tier content.
Actually this system is better because you are guaranteed a reward and it's not solely reliant on rng.

This system is unreasonable though, there are not just DoW/M classes, there are DoH/L classes which are being ignored and becoming obsolete, the gear we get to craft in 3.05 is total and utter rubbish, not even worth bothering crafting (for DoW/M). Yay, let me make you a bit of gear that takes up 200 of my weekly 450 allowance but is, well, total and utterly useless to you, but you can use it for gla... wait, no, they have the same skin as the lower one, umm, umm..... The gear isn't even as good as the stuff you get with LAW, SE are giving crafters obsolete gear to craft.

That is the major issue with the current direction of the game, Yoshi hates crafters, it's showing with each update just how much he has no idea what to do with crafters, so gives them stuff that's not even worth bothering with. Hell, there has been no PVP crafted gear since lvl 50, ilvl 55, you DoW/M may love your faux progression, but us DoH, where is our progression? Are we destined to spend every patch crafting for each other in the hope that one day we actually get something other than furniture or a minion to craft? Woo, I spent millions grinding up my Carp so I can make you a lovely minion, GO TEAM!!

[Tuathaa]

This system is unreasonable though, there are not just DoW/M classes, there are DoH/L classes which are being ignored and becoming obsolete

This I agree with. This is the only mmo I have played that I haven't leveled a crafter\gatherer. The professions in this game imo suck and are un necessarily difficult not very rewarding and most definitely not fun.