Don't understand making weapons when quests give them?

[ReiszRie]

Making craft gear stronger than quest gear will make people just buy all their gears. What they need to do is have craft gear have similar stats to the quest gear, but for them to look much better, for example weaponsmith making swords for gld & not daggers like what the quest gives.

Perhaps the option of making crafted gears comparable but sporting a different (more unique) look might be a good addition as it gives players the option of either farming for tomestones (free) for gears or spending gil for crafted gear.

Currently, as it stands, end game gear (wanderer, keep, darklight) are superior over any crafted gear, thus players have no reason to get crafted gear at all.