Crafting is amazing, but crafting in the expansions..? (Gameplay problem)

[Tsubaki75]

To hit on some of your points, you can't compare nq gear to augmented tomb gear since you should only be crafting hq gear, yes you need hq matts that is part of leveling crafting until your stats are high enough you can use nq. There is no point in making nq gear that ppl can get in a city from a vendor, and if you are using your crafters to make $ it will cover the cost of your matts even if you don't have your gatherers leveled.

You should have your gatherers leveled about 5 lvls or so above your crafters to have access to all the matts you need if you don't want to buy them.

Yes dungeon gear has slightly higher stats because it is one lvl above crafted gear for those cpl levels, crafted gear is on even lvls (62, 64, 66, ect) and dungeon gear is odd (63, 65, 67) the point is it makes no difference in easy leveling content and not all ppl want to farm a gearset (outside of glamour) that will need to be replaced as soon as they get all the pieces because they leveled in the process.

I make a ton of gil selling leveling gear both to ppl that need it for progression and for ppl using it for leve trade-ins that either can't or won't make it themselves, so if you think making money is a complete waste then I guess it is.