Crafting Needs a Place in Endgame Raiding

[Kallera]

It does. It's called Culinary. Otherwise, no thanks. I hated that in WOW, you were forced to gem/enchant all of your gear to be accepted into groups. In this game, people with all 50's have too many sets of armor to be forced to spend all of their gil on materia, etc for a very small (but mandatory) stat boost.

But you are not actually getting rid of the practice. Now people are not inviting you because you haven't got the relic +1, break blade or a certain ilvl.

All you have done is change the excuse.

And expensive doesn't always mean greedy. People cannot fully control how many dice rolls it took to get the items, the materia, the HQ, the melds, and a selling price that will get them a buyer in a timely fashion.

Players didn't like the low chance of getting certain gear in prior MMOs, now some are barred from ingenuity of making their own gear altogether, while endgame is funnelled into one playstyle one brand of content. How is that not greed and selfishness? How can one make a sense of community, much less a economy, out of so many restrictions?