Housing..

[ArkhamNative]

Its a load of BS that they are stomping on crafting its a huge part of the game well it used to be there should be rare drops that are made into gear that can be on par with dungeons. It really pisses me off that they are doing away with crafting gear to a certain extent

But in LIVE Letter XII, Yoshi-P said the opposite:

Lots of players are getting geared up with ilvl 90 gear, but in patch 2.2 the item level will change.
And there will be enormous amounts of items being added.
High level crafting gear will be introduced, and if you think about it a little, you got the materia melding, so if you buy them it’ll be a faster method to gear up.
If I say too much, it’s going to be bad, but there will be lots of materials.

(Reinheart's live translation)

So it's not 100% clear exactly what's coming, but crafting (high level, materia, mats) is a part of it.