I get a lot of personal satisfaction from crafting and melding my gears. I know there are people in the game that like to show off and look good with their DL gear and such. When it comes to the actual fight, their damage or other output is lacking. It's sad that people play to look good but to each their own. There are a lot of benefit s from crafting and melding if your willing to put in the effort and work. And to me that's why I play the mmo games... You get out of it what you put into it. I'll always choose crafted gear over dungeon gear because that's my style of play and the ends have always justified the means in that respect.