Quote Originally Posted by MagiusNecros View Post
That's not saying much.
You must not be aware of how powerful crafted gear was in ARR. During FCOB, several of the i110 pieces rivaled i130 gear for BiS status. Since they're adding materia slots to raid and tomestone gear, it's fairly likely that they're going to position crafted sets as another path for acquiring the most powerful gear more intentionally this time, since it's going to be more powerful than the FCOB gear was.