crafting is it worth it?

[JackTrades]

I actually buy some crafted gear on the market and turn them in for GC seals. You can find HQ items going for dirt cheap right now, it saves me from trying to farm/craft 8 different class items for multiple supply requests and provides quick exp across multiple crafts. If you make 20 items to vend for 50-100 gil a piece & farm your own mats, that's 1-2k that you didn't have before. Compare that to other MMOs (even ffxi) where you had to lose tons of money to level up. You can also meld your crafted gear for materia which tier II or higher make decent money on. The leveling itself won't make you tons of gil, but it does provide a extra income & costs little to no money to take to 50. It also provides you the ability to repair your own gear instead of dropping 2-5k at level 50 which saves you in the long run. There's also furniture and items for player housing, which will create a market when available and initial prices will be ludicrous before they stabilize to a comfortable level.

[Lewtz]

nope not worth it.. you can obtain everything Better then a crafter can make via myth tokens/bahamut

[FraenirVolsung]

nope not worth it.. you can obtain everything Better then a crafter can make via myth tokens/bahamut

Pretty much this ^^

Only the HQ versions of the item level 70 crafted gear (Heavy Darksteel, Vanya, Mailbreaker, Astrolabe, etc.) are roughly equivalent of the much easier to obtain Darklight Gear. Unfortunately the cost of HQing these items is hugely prohibitive. Just the coke for 1 darksteel ingot is about 1000 tomestones of philosophy.

When you get into the AF+1/Bahamut gear you can't come close with crafted gear + melds.

[Rythless]

nope not worth it.. you can obtain everything Better then a crafter can make via myth tokens/bahamut

Wrong. Once you figure out how strong materia is, you will understand why certain crafted items exceed anything you can get from the dungeon/raid system.