Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
Because there's zero effort involved in buying crafted gear and you could have it all in one day.

You still have to outroll others and everyone would be rolling on EVERYTHING.
Looking at your signature, I'm sure there's zero effort involved for you.
The average player doesn't have all crafters/gatherers at 70, let alone have the gear to craft everything on day one of a patch.

Currently, the player has the option to go with a gearing method that gets them a set of gear over the course of a month, or dropping gil to speed up the process and obtaining full i380 in the first week.
Remove the loot lockout, and they'll just be spamming Alphascape for the first week to get to full i380, removing the advantage that crafted gear has.