Quote Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder View Post
I really do not see much use for the scrip gear, to be honest. Its not hard to craft the gear, and then meld it to be better than scrip gear. Its also not hard (though time-consuming, I’ll admit) to craft stuff to sell to make enough money to buy the crafted gear, if unwilling to level the requisite crafting class. Ultimately, it is cheaper and faster to become an omnicrafter and just shift Specialists around to craft it all yourself. Which, once more, leaves no real place for the scrip gear.
It's mostly for aesthetic purposes I think, which is still a valid reason to obtain scrip gear. For HW, even though augmented scrip gear was inferior to penta melded crafted gear, you still qualified for three star recipes without any help from specialists/food/FC buffs. Basically, you can still get the job done, but it was more difficult due to lower stats, which really just teaches you how to improvise better as an omnicrafter. That's what I did as having unique looks for each crafter is VERY important to me.

Hopefully with the next patch, crafters can aim to craft and meld the best gear and also glam the scrip gear of their choice for multiple classes on that single set, and then pitch the scrip gear to save space.