Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
The 7 main battle jobs are what I would consider the main jobs. In no way should BiS gear be available just based on crafting. SE should do what they did in FFXI. Crafting has 0 BiS pieces at lvl cap, however they can make cursed gear but they require a drop from PvE content to use. All of FFXI's BiS gear comes from Abyssea, Voidwatch, Neo Nyzul, or Legion. A couple pieces are cursed but only a few and there are comparable to non cursed ones that are just drops.

Crafting has its place as starter gear and some high and gear which require you to get a PvE drop to unlock. It just feels dumb when someone can go to the AH with a lot of gil and just buy BiS gear.
Actually, this is something unique in XIV that I like myself. BiS gear is all crafted, and it's not nescessarily bad either!
Mind, I do hope that they can implement a sort of 'crafting request' in 2.0 so that one can craft U/U gear for someone else, and for DoL/DoH being far more involved and downright indispensable to acquiring the most powerful gear.

It's simply a matter of refining the current implementation slightly more, really.

Edit: Really, if we DO find a way for the best gear to not be avaiable in the Market Wards and still have crafting and gathering heavily involved in it, would anyone be against it?