Crafting LS gear: Can we have alternatives?
I think you might be able to get rare and exotic items that way in future but the ascended back pieces in the LS are already the easy alternative to fractal back pieces, which are not trivial to acquire. In fact this back piece is the top reward (only reward?) from half a season of living story so on that basis too it was always likely to require a lot of effort.
That might be true, but crafting it cost a lot of gold (especially if you haven’t mastered any of the relevant crafts)