Demimateria

[Alexiell]

you need a complete set for each class, so if you dont wanna craft the expensive stuff you have to wait forever before you get all the gear, or you have to stick to a single-few crafter class, which is probably what SE wanted to keep the market alive.
also, with full melds we can expect the new crafted gear to be noticably better than red scrip gear. take legs for example:

crafted NQ ilvl 170 is 7 craftsmanship, 62 control

now looking at the ilvl 150 legs, we had a difference of 7 control between NQ and HQ, add this to the i lvl 170 and we get

7 craftsmanship, 69 control

add the i lvl 150 meld caps to it, we gonna have at least:

15 craftsmanship, 80 control, 4GP for full melded HQ ilvl 170 legs, compared to

8 craftsmanship, 75 control of the ilvl 180 red scrip legs