Quote Originally Posted by Skyhound View Post
Yoshi did say that crafted great will not be better than raid gear. His reasoning is because he does not want people to stick to created gear in lieu of dungeon running.

However, I believe this point was misconstrued by many. No one gear set is BiS. To get BiS, you need a mix of Allagan, Myth, and XM gear. I think eventually a few crafting pieces will end up as BiS.
Not misconstrued at all, go to the forum top and you will see the Dev post saying this, from the beginning they never intended for crafting to impact the game to a great degree. The post is about a week old.