Why is Crafting still in the game?

[Versiroth]

Yeah, then I'm still in the same boat. I'm still going to be required to run dungeons to get the tomestones. And unless the crafted gear is better than the gear you can get via myth tomes, then nothing has changed.

Sorry, but making crafted gear better than gear you need to farm would quite literally ruin the game and shorten it's life. Why grind tomes for weeks when people could just RMT there way to a better crafted set in no time at all?

[LineageRazor]

I craft because I like to craft. For that reason, I'm glad it's still in the game. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that I enjoy progressing my crafting classes even more than I do my DoM/DoW classes.

However, the fact that I don't level crafting jobs with the intent to make money does not make it an less disappointing to know that SE has pretty much flat-out stated that crafting classes will never amount to anything worthwhile, in order to combat RMT.