Quote Originally Posted by dspguy View Post
I'm with the OP. I was "excited" back during... what was it? 2.4? When they released the new omni-crafter set (minus body) and there was i110 gear that people actually wanted to buy. It was a race to outfit crafters and get master books such that you could get that stuff up on the MB. You had DoW/M zerging T4 for Allagan drops, selling them and then turning around and spending that gil on the final product. Yeah, good times.
2.4 was definitely a great time for crafters. I made more DoW/M gear for people during 2.4-2.5 than I ever had before (and despite what SE thinks, that was *mostly* because the 110 gear was far better itemized in several areas than other options). But even going back to 2.2 or 2.0, the 3-star and 2-star gear was still very much wanted and accessible.

I had a number of BRD friends running around in Kirimu coats with my name on them, and I really miss that feeling. The 2.4 sets were also some of the best looking gear we've gotten so far (they still sell at pretty good margins too, on my server at least). Some of the new i180 gear is nice, but several of them are just retreads, which isn't exactly very exciting.