Crafting is dead

[Xenitan]

As someone who enjoys this games crafting I am not asking for crafted gear to be the best

I am asking for crafted gear to be the best. Not every piece, mind, but itemization in 2.X was tomes/raid and crafting back a bit behind a materia wall. Itemization was also pretty awful in 2.x

It just gets worse when there are even fewer viable alternatives. Crafted gear is an expensive pain in the ass. If it's not best in slot, it's pretty useless. Not every recipe has to be useful, but when you make crafting much more annoying to obtain on top of it being worse, what's the point of it even being there? Upset that people took down your content early behind crafted gear? How about you just don't release that gear right away.

Itemization was and still is a problem in this game and they're just making it *worse*.