Quote Originally Posted by kingatlas View Post
I hate the idea of crafted gathering gear, it puts our fate in their hands.
Unless you also are a crafter, you will be paying millions upon millions for this gear.
What's worse: the gear is likely to be locked behind specialist recipes, which means that you will literally be incapable of self-sufficiency.

Maybe it's not as much of a problem on Japanese servers or something - maybe people are much more willing to help each other out in gearing, and are willing to make gear for one another, but I've yet to find a circle of gatherers and crafters out there willing to scratch each others' backs on NA servers.