I really do not see much use for the scrip gear, to be honest. Its not hard to craft the gear, and then meld it to be better than scrip gear. Its also not hard (though time-consuming, I’ll admit) to craft stuff to sell to make enough money to buy the crafted gear, if unwilling to level the requisite crafting class. Ultimately, it is cheaper and faster to become an omnicrafter and just shift Specialists around to craft it all yourself. Which, once more, leaves no real place for the scrip gear.