Why is crafting so useless?

[DarthBuzzer]

Crafters SHOULD be able to make decent battle gear near BiS. One way to have both raiders happy and crafters happy is to have i210 crafted gear that requires binding raid drops. These could then be used by Crafters in the raid to make binding i210 gear. Thats just one way to make crafting worthwhile, but we should still have decent tradable battle gear too.

[Giantbane]

Crafters SHOULD be able to make decent battle gear near BiS. One way to have both raiders happy and crafters happy is to have i210 crafted gear that requires binding raid drops. These could then be used by Crafters in the raid to make binding i210 gear. Thats just one way to make crafting worthwhile, but we should still have decent tradable battle gear too.

I wish crafters could produce augments for high end raid gear that allows you to customize the secondary stats via materia.

Would be desirable enough to keep crafting relevant, but not required for raiding.

[Snugglebutt]

Crafters SHOULD be able to make decent battle gear near BiS. One way to have both raiders happy and crafters happy is to have i210 crafted gear that requires binding raid drops. These could then be used by Crafters in the raid to make binding i210 gear. Thats just one way to make crafting worthwhile, but we should still have decent tradable battle gear too.

No they shouldn't and apparently SE agree's.

[Chrolo]

I have no problem with BiS crafted gear as long its bound to the crafter. We are commiting alot of time into crafting instead of raiding, so crafting should also grant us gear equal to raiding. The scrip system would have been perfect to lock the gear behind it, so we wont craft it faster than raiders can aquire their sets.

The current system right now seems to have a supply chain for future recipes in mind.

I predict the future crafting patch will be like this:

Only a geared gatherer who got themself red scrip gear will be able to farm the new nodes.
So crafters will be reliant on those gatherers because they used their gatherer scrips for favors instead of gathering gear.

This way SE will limit the self-sufficiency and force trading onto us.

[DarthBuzzer]

No they shouldn't and apparently SE agree's.

Considering you're on Square Enix's payroll I expected nothing less of a statement from you. What I suggested makes everyone happy. It hurts no one. The only people who won't be happy are trolls.

[Snugglebutt]

Considering you're on Square Enix's payroll I expected nothing less of a statement from you.

Could always do with additional real life income for just posting on a game forum but unfortunately you are incorrect.