Quote Originally Posted by Rydin View Post
Games that have auto-crafting can NEVER have crafters make top tier gear...
If you allow players to auto-craft, the crafting is relegated to a slightly novel idea but never a real class. If you allow auto-craft then you might as well remove all 40+ recipes for Armorer, BlackSmithing, Leather, Carpentor, Weaver and Goldsmith
Get rid of crafting gear... Honestly, you might as well get rid of crafting levels too...
It's a backseat class now, right?
That's that problem with FFXIV crafting shouldn't be a class. It's turned into a tedious unfun mini game. Crafting in any form and in any game should not provide top tier gear ever. Crafting should make entry level gear to be used for starting end game raids and bosses which should drop top tier gear. A lot of people who leveled every craft to 50 used a bot or similar program because it was so boing to actually do it themselves. That alone tells you something is wrong with the crafting system in this game.

The game shouldn't be I got lucky and put 3 or 5 materia in this one piece of gear so therefore its BiS. Best gear should come form doing endgame not crafting.