What is the point of crafting gear when you can get better gear with little to no effort and the game is made so you can easily skip a tier of gear to begin with?

better question is why does SE keep wasting time developing crafting and gathering stuff when they keep insisting they want it to be pointless.

Anyone saying crafting is fine as is has blinders on. The current collasped/near dead economy and the fact this is the only game doing it this way in the whole mmo market... should be a sign something is wrong. The crafting in this game is as good of an idea as surplus xp was in 1.0