What is the use of crafting these days?

Voldamane wrote:

There is at least one raid in game that requires you have 5-6 level 50 crafters in the middle of the fight just to complete it. There is another raid in the same area (Different mob) that requires crafters make an item beforehand and use it during the raid. In order to get the recipes for these things, you have to be a level 45 diploer. So really when the devs put these mobs in the game, you needed to have a lot of triple 50 characters.
I wouldn't mind seeing more stuff like this personally.
But crafting is necessary for what is currently the best end-game gear, though that doesn't really help lowbies much.

Flarestar wrote:

Well, the cheap large bags in the cash shop did more to shaft bag makers than anything else.