Quote Originally Posted by Viviza View Post
You'll never see a serious effort made for crafting to be end-game relevant. The focus is largely on leveling gear, novelties, and side content like airships.
I've loved the crafting system since I started playing, but I ragequit it for a month, and I'm still not happy. I don't care about being an endgame crafter - I like leveling sets. Repeat a dungeon until I have a full set of gear? Nah, I'll make current hq pieces.. Good gear and materia as a bonus.

HW killed that. Crafting a set takes me about 30 mins for all NQ mats, more for HQ, which is fine.. But now the gathering requirements are huge. One set of gear will burn through nearly a stack of DoL mats, plus you're looking at multiple types and mob drops. I like being self sufficient, so I avoid the MB.. Yay for my retainer. :/ Due to the vast time sink of crafting leveling gear, I'll only do poe -> 56 -> law gear + current weapons, because honestly, the rest just isn't worth my time.