Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
If you don't raid, then all you need to really keep up with is crafted.

We're not talking about poetics, as those are irrelevant to keeping up with current content. People want the 450 tome (currently causality) cap raised. What they're not understanding is content is balanced around the easily available crafted gear. Raising that cap makes crafted less relevant and with higher value gear being easy to get, content would then be balanced around that and we'd find ourselves in the same exact spot.
Or you don't raise the cap immediately, but after several weeks have passed, meaning there's still a period of time where crafted gear holds value--early on in even numbered patches when the raid tier is new. You can't exactly go farm up every job in the first week if you still have a cap out of the gate. All it does is allow players to gear up multiple jobs more easily as time goes on.