AF gear is still what can be considered one groupable, so won't be really comparable to what we really care about: raid gear.

I've said in multiple threads that pure crafted gear should only in very rare cases trump gear obtainable through raids. Crafted should be the stepping stone to harder content. Suggestions have been said over and over on how to integrate the two and I won't rehash it here. Since we won't be seeing raids till 2.0, all we can do is wait.