The only purpose crafted gear serves in this game is to feed bots and make Alli and Normal 8 man raids irrelevant. It's dirt cheap so cost isn't a factor, it makes botting lucrative and it's better than gear you earn from actually participating in casual battle content. It makes no sense to me that players will wail about how Savage and tome gear can never be easier to get for alt jobs because "we must force those 10% of players to stay subbed!" ...while casual players, the bulk of the playerbase, can literally gear in minutes by visiting the nearest marketboard, log out until next patch and have zero gear progression.

Crafted gear is useless for crafters except on week 1. It's a waste of time and effort to sell it. It gives us no purpose because we aren't doing anything a non-crafter can't access for peanuts from a bot.