Crafting is turning out to be completely worthless for anything other than leveling, which isn’t desirable anyway. There simply aren’t enough stat combinations in the gear you can make.
If you sink your time into crafting, your stuck with Power being on every single combination whether you like it or not. You’re also stuck with precious few combinations on the other two stats. Anet has also built a system where bringing together all the basic materials and skillfully creating a masterpiece out of it is actually worth less than the basic components themselves. Good job there. Talk about a worthless skill. But I digress…
I really want Toughness, Healing Power, and Condition Damage (Shaman’s prefix from PvP). There’s also Soldier’s and Rabid, and more.
Please add these insignias to the crafting system! At least make crafting worthwhile by providing customizability. As it stands, we’ve got nothing.