What is the point of crafting leveling gear?

[Laerune]

There are alot of reasons why one would want to craft their own gear:

- Crafting your own gear means you will spend less on vendor gear. We must not forget that newcomers with no gil need a way to upgrade the gear of their crafting and gathering classes.

- The game wants you to make HQ items, if you want 2x-4x reward, then you need to hand in a HQ version of the item and crafting a HQ item requires high stats, skill or just luck.

- If you want to level fast, you need to hand in HQ items, this means you will either need to be able to make one yourself, buy one from the Marketboard or ask someone to craft them for you and that might cost you money aswell. For alot of newcomers the last two options is not possible, so they can only get them by crafting the item themselves.

- Its very handy and if you HQ them you only need one gearset every 10 levels. The HQ stats are higher then the NQ stats that you get from items after 5 levels, this means that you can keep wearing the same gear for 10 levels. Since all gathering and crafting classes share the same gear, this means that you will save inventory space and you can spiritbond the gear when you are done with it.

- After level 50, you can not buy the right side of the gear from an vendor, the only way to obtain them is either from a quest reward or crafting.

Personaly, I think the option to level our own gear was made so we can save gil, gil that newcomers wont have.