I don't even really mind that the top craftable gear right now in 3.x is not as good as raid gear, I'm actually OK with it. My problem lies that in crafting it you lose a lot and gain not much. Heres my point, run dungeons, get great gear, use that great gear, run higher dungeons or raids and keep improving. Simple right? Thing is when this gear is done I can turn it in for FC points and seals, so theres no real terrible loss in getting and replacing that gear. Now lets look at the crafted gear. It may be great once HQ'ed and melded and thats fine. The problem comes in when it gets replaced... what do I do with it that gives me some sort of return so that it was worth having for the short time I had it?..