Yes, let's allow a handful of people to pretty much have a monopoly on crafted items. I'm all for fixing the crafting market, but placing it behind a 5600 crafted items wall is just not the way to do it.

Ways to fix the crafting market:
1. Add a difficult quest to each crafting class that unlocks a master crafting specialization.
The player can only have 2 specializations active at any time. The specialization can be reset, but the player will have to do the quest again to get the specialization of another crafting class. However, the player will also have to do the quest again when going back to an old specialization.
This means a player could possibly specialize in everything, but it'd be very time/gil consuming due to having to switch every time. (so most players will likely just stick to 2 specializations)

2. Make some of the materials difficult to obtain
I don't just mean having it tied to tomestones. Add rare monsters in the overworld that can drop rare materials. Add rare bosses to peisteskin maps that drop rare materials, that need a full party to defeat. Maybe even add chests in hard-to-reach places inside a raid, with difficult mobs guarding 'em.

3. Make crafting gear equal to current raiding gear
Currently, crafting gear is just used to get a small head start in any new raid content, and loses its importance afterwards. If crafting was an alternate way of gearing, more players would likely be more interested in it, meaning the demand stays up and the prices won't drop too quickly over time.


To avoid point 3 from causing gearing to become too easy, it could be combined with point 2. Having rare materials would keep the supply down, while the demand would likely remain the same.
Heck, it could even be combined with point 1, adding the crafted items to a craft's specialization, which would limit the amount of crafters able to craft the gear.



As for luminary tools, I've always seen them as vanity/prestige items. Whenever I see a crafter with one of those, I know that player enjoyed crafting enough to go for one of the tools.