whats the point of crafting...

[Kincard]

I'm sure other people have already said these but I'm feeling lazy to read right now:
1. Having multiple ways for us to obtain gear is not a bad thing, does anybody seriously care that much if someone "buys" their way into endgame? Even if you try to restrict it in various ways people will still do it in ways like selling Titan runs. Restricting gameplay because of this accomplishes absolutely nothing.
2. RMT will always be around regardless of what you do and you'll just have to accept it's an eternal cat-and-mouse game. It's also completely self-defeating to design your game obtusely specifically to inconvenience RMTs because it will almost always inconvenience legitimate players even more as well as defeat the whole purpose of fighting RMT in the first place ("RMT ruin the game, let's stop that by changing our design philosophy in a way that makes the game less fun!" What?)
3. XIV's crafting is one of the most unique things it has to offer when compared to other MMOs and I'm very disappointed that the dev team has decided to continue with the philosophy of making it largely useless other than for its own sake (crafting crafting gear to help others cap crafting so they can craft crafting gear for other crafters to cap their crafting) or for spending more points to create gear that's barely any better than you can just buy with those same points. In case any of you haven't kept up with it, base stats are generally ~6x what your secondary stats are worth so no amount of overmelding crit rate and determination is going to make your gryphonskins better than your myth or allegan pieces except in rare cases where they decided to saturate the higher ilevel with nothing but garbage stats like skill speed, even in these cases it was probably accidental and it really has nothing to do with why the design philosophy itself is flawed.