Quote Originally Posted by Susanoh View Post
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As a crafter crafting endgame-tier gear, your greatest competition is the game itself constantly encouraging and even pressuring all players to simply ignore crafted gear entirely and go straight into dungeon grinding.

It's not just that crafted gear is inferior to the highest tier of non-crafted gear by a huge margin, it's that ALL the endgame crafted gear has dropped gear that is almost exactly identical in stats and also doesn't cost gil.