I really feel that ultimately crafting is not important or useful enough. Example: best armor we can craft is ilv 180, to make that useful endgame I would want to hq it of course. Then again to really make it comparable I\\\\'d want to penta meld it. That\\\\'s way more money or time. Then after all that hard work to make my very own awesome!e gear, I run extremes a bunch of times or build up law/esoterica and very soon buy or get way better gear, not only is my crafted piece now obsolete, BUT it was much faster and easier to grind the tomes for the better gear, furthermore the tome or raid gear is not just better, it seems WAY better, so y even bother crafting that ilv 180 gear to begin with? Once it\\\\'s obsolete I can desynth it, but the biggest loss is the materia which I can never get back anyway. Can someone in development please set me straight as to why crafting the top tier battle armor and weapons and melding them is even worth it?

Thank you!