There has to be a market for crafts or else they are useless. And the market dies without crafted goods. HL crafted gear should only lose to HL events... Not HL Daily commendations you can get from something as easy as "Impossible Sector" Best gear - ops and any hard/long time/big team HL events. 2nd best gear - HL craft 3rd best gear - Solable/"way to easy" stuff I'm sorry but its really hard for me to understand how this isnt unanimous.

This is only an opinion of a player who was always interested in the crafts part on mmorpgs. It makes perfect sense to me that you get from quests better gear than you can craft. Usually means that if you are willing to put in the hours, you get better gear than your average player. If you are not a hardcore player you will have to settle with less "perfect" gear. Thats where crafters come in. When you craft, there is a market for you in players that are not hardcore (and maybe on SWTOR in companions). But its clear that one of the reasons to have a craft and leveling it to 400 is to sell some and "fuel the market". It seems pretty logic to me. I have chickens but I cant fish so i sell my chickens so i can buy fish from a fisherman. Makes perfect sense. So I should be able to sell some HL gear so i can buy another HL gear I cant craft. Fuel the market and get decent gear (not the best but good as to not harm my game). Ok im not even going to go into how the good gear you can make at 400 is bound. On how frustrating it must be for a cybertech to be able to make a zilion bikes for himself. So I get to 400, i reverse and average 10 items to get blue, I reverse an average 40 items to get purple. And anyone can get all my purple crafts in half an hour with daily commendations... So why did i craft? You guys have an excelent game in terms of story and voice acting. But this game is going to die if you dont pay attention to simple details. I'm lucky to be in a faily populated world, but most worlds are dying and things like this are part of the reason. Craft must have a use.