Quote Originally Posted by pikalovr View Post
so i propose the same question to you why is it so bad for those who already put the time and effort in to be equal to crafted let alone slightly higher power wise when you can still clear at min ilvl requirement
The problem with your suggestion is it entirely destroys what little crafting has left. If the crafted gear were 5 or 10 ilvls lower than previous BiS, it becomes immediately worthless. By the start of 6.2, nearly everyone will have full tome or a mix of Savage/Tome, thus having no reason to even look at the crafted sets. Granted, it would highlight the sad state crafting has become reduced to. Nevertheless, it's something the devs will never do simply because they have nothing else to offer crafters. Not to mention, they want to incentivize pentamelding since materia is among the very few consumables they can dump in content as a reward. If you start taking all these aspects away, it'll show how shallow their reward structure is.