Crafting is dead

[Nezerius]

So, what's the time-frame to fully gear all 8?

Honestly, I missed the time-wall for Poetics, and I find the idea of 3 weeks for a weapon (I have about three weeks left on my sub) to be too much. I'm also a builder-o'-the-realm though, and so I decided to see if crafting was in a better place (and then I could do that instead of esoteric grinding). It seems to actually be worse considering leveling just one crafter isn't particularly viable financially. Ouch.

If you're getting all of the red scrips yourself, it'll take almost a year to fully gear every crafting job
That's assuming you take this route of gearing:

Unmeldable gear

• 1300 scrips per unmeldable mainhand tool/10400 in total
• 900 scrips per unmeldable chestpiece/4500 in total

Meldable gear (using scrips to buy the materials)

• 150 scrips per head/1200 in total
• 150 scrips per gloves/1200 in total
• 150 scrips per boots/1200 in total
• 200 scrips per pants/2000 in total

Crafted-only gear

• 150 scrips per offhand/1200 in total
• 100 scrips per accessory (necklace, earrings, wrist, belt)/400 in total
• 50 scrips per ring/100 in total

For a grand total of 22200 red scrips. At 450 per week, that will take 50 weeks to get (49.3 to be exact) or 2 weeks less than a year.
It'll be less if you also get the meldable versions of the mainhand tools and chestpieces, or if you buy the materials off the marketboard. But melding will be very pricey when trying to get the stats on par with the unmeldable versions.

Though, I assume they'll nerf the cost of the gear before then, hopefully.