128788-crafted-gear-worth-the-effort

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			Hey guys, just hit 50, have been working on my tailor all the way until now.  I have all of the tech tree items that don't require outside items completed, and was wondering about the vailability of crafted gear.Before i spend another copper on leveling this up (and im certain it will get crazy expensive from this point forward) is crafted gear even worth a damn?  If you can just get something better from vet dungeons then I won't bother.Raid gear being better I can understand....but I expect crafted gear to be at least the next rung down on the ladder in order for it to be worthwhile for me.	
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			Nowadays crafting gear is not worth the effort. Maybe to equip you with basic items but when it comes to going down in the crafting tree you need too much time and gold. You achieve much better stats from Adventure/Dungeon gear instead. Fortunately they will change that in the Free-to-Play transition so crafting gets more valuable again.  ;)	
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As a fresh 50, crafting can be useful. Getting yourself wrapped into crafted level 49/50 blues optimized for your class and spec can get you into vet dungeons and makes running dailies a snap. You will need a lot of glory currency to buy raid gear, so running vet dungeons gets you both, glory and gear.
 
The crafted raid-based archivos gear is enough to get into the first raid, but that stuff is expensive, several plat per piece usually. The archivos healer shoulders will last a long time due to the focus recovery special. Everything else will get replaced by anything dropping in raid.	
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