Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
Gotcha; that's kinda more of the same though. The gear creep eventually makes all the recipes trivial to make, so it just boils down to whether you NEED the crafted item here-and-now or if you can just wait a bit.

If you're leveling strictly to have the bleeding edge stuff for raids, etc then agreed- not worth your time/effort at all.
But when the stuff becomes trivial to make, it also becomes trivial to just buy off the marketboard. Which was my original point, there's no reason to bother with crafting other then the convenience of self repair and self meld.