Redo the Crafting system.

[Elamys]

No, the sandbox I speak also produced basic materials with random stats, so the same type of ore (to say something) can be perfect for one week and a piece of crap during the rest of the year each week, so even those "perfect" weapons will stop being produce at some point and become more rare and expensive. Another scenario is a total crash of a market during a time till said material become rare again, so yeah, you can even hoard rare mats and sold those for millions of credits months laters, here you can't do that, after a patch (if even), everything just loses value.

Anyway, I don't know why you are arguing this, a crafting system with decay (yeah, items breaking by use will open the market for everyday gear to save top tier just for very specific content, is so obvious that blow my main away how people skip this detail) that doesn't produce the exact same item is more complex and interesting, period.

This really does not sound fun at all. Most players don't want to deal with randomized stats or item decay. I know I don't. Many people want to get rid of even gear repairs. Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft have randomized stats, in those games, and in FFXIV, getting the perfect set of stats is important. Getting a piece of gear with the wrong stats is incredibly frustrating and unrewarding, because it feels like useless garbage that you're just waiting to replace. We have gear with randomized stats in Diadem, people only use them to pad their ilvl on alt classes until they can get the real gear.

Also, your first paragraph about hoarding rare materials is largely incorrect; many of the rare materials from ARR were very very valuable for this last set of HW crafting. the trend will likely be repeated in Stormblood.