We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Dualgunner]

Hyo edited her post to say this but I'll just say again:

Let's assume you can craft your way to i370. Congratulations, you're now i370. For the next six months. How does this solve your issue regarding gear stagnation in any way, shape, or form? You're not going to run duties at all at this point, because you hate running duties as far as I'm aware. So getting the gear to make running duties faster is also a moot point. If all you like doing in this game is crafting and gaming the marketboard, then better gear obviously doesn't help with that.

EDIT: Better battlecraft gear, I should say.

You have a whole other branch of progression wholly unique to crafters and gatherers as well. If your stances are as you say they are, then DoL/DoH progression should matter much more to you than DoW/DoM.