Dear readers,
I've been playing A Realm Reborn again since a few months now and i've been busy with gearing up my Dragoon up for raiding and so far I'm doing pretty god and am at 98 Itlvl (including some 110 items). Some time back I had a disscusion with my guild about the crafted gear and if it's worth crafting them compaired to the 100-110 gear.
From my point of view you can get a good set of 110 gear from soldery + upgrades, with moderate effort. While if you try your hands on the 90 crafted gear (i hope it was 90 I'm not sure) ,to outdo the mentioned gear you would have to get HQ, but before that you also need a decent crafting set to make the gear and you would need to max out your materia melding, not to mention getting the required mats to do so requires some detication.

Now to get to my question:
Considering I play Semi-Hardcore/ Casual due to my working schedule, is it woth the time and effort to craft the gear? Compaired to the 110 gear from Soldery or Coil?