Please reevaluate the balance between crafted and U/U items.

[Lavani]

In my, admittedly biased, opinion: crafted gear should always be better than dropped gear otherwise there is no point in having crafting at all.

I would argue it takes a lot longer to grind a craft and then make a decent piece of gear than it does to repeatedly camp and kill an NM that spawns every five minutes. I don't find obtaining dropped gear to be hard at all.

Cool, so you wan't to buy victory on the market wards. That gives no incentive for doing added boss fights more than once, and that's only to say you did it.

Maybe if they added drops that people could get from bosses/mobs (similar to how Monster Hunter works) and have crafters use those materials to make you the gear, people would still raid.

[Wynn]

Maybe if they added drops that people could get from bosses/mobs (similar to how Monster Hunter works) and have crafters use those materials to make you the gear, people would still raid.

This is exactly how it used to work with drops before full on equipment was added to loot tables. That's why we have things like the Dodore doublet. Why they changed it, I have no idea.