So why are the crafter relics.. bad.

[Troxbark]

Doesn't really matter either way, you still bump into some form of deficit/issue.

you need to promote multiple methods of attaining gear, regardless of whether this is done through the market board or other means. To put this into perspective, if we were to go according to a direction wherein the crafter relics are immediately better then what precisely is the point in crafting the 610 main-hands in the first place and even engaging in the gearing process for these tools considering you can't even use said tools to craft the relic in the first place?

I'm sorry, but whilst you think this may resolves the problem, you just create problems in other areas as a result. So there will be a problem regardless, and crafting is in a weird state anyway in that... Let's say you make them tools be 625 compared to 620 as a nice little middle-ground, this won't always translate to a practical use e.g., overflowing quality and overflowing progress whilst not actually changing rotations or the efficiency in the first place.

E.g., in general use outside of very niche use-case, whilst the Skysteel tools were equal, if not superior to Penta-melded Aesthete's tools, and this was only a false sense because it changed absolutely nothing in terms of efficiency (Outside of expert recipes - Which these tools already cover)

It's MARKETBOARD gear, why are you defending it? It's contentless fast food gear and should be treated as such.

Make the indigators tools 5 ilvls lower. You can still craft everything, you give relic a slight advantage without have to *fine tune* relic stats or anything else.

You want quick, easy and effortless gear, marketboard. You want a bis? It should be Relic or something else even if it's released in a short amount of time.