Right now crafting, especially armor and weaponsmithing is in a bit of an mess.
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With item drops being quite regular at every level crafting items like the Obelisk Guard or Amrine Temple gear is mostly superfluous. The only reason to make weapons / armor at lower levels is to target specific stat budgets and most of these items won’t sell as people get more than enough gear from mobs or quests. Add faction armor into the mix and the number of crafted gear items needed drops even further.
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In addition to this, the materials needed to craft the more interesting items like Voidmetal or Fae iron are too rare for the numbers required. Even with Mining gear I have yet to see Voidmetal from mining, the only Voidmetal I got was from chests. Same goes for petrified wood for example.
Without +luck% these items are virtually non existant, with +luck gear they are too rare. At the point where you have enough of those to use them at all the items you can make with them are of no use to you personally and will most likely not sell on the market for what they should be worth from the difficulty to get the ingrediences.