Reasonable Material Crafting Price please!

Recently, I found out that crafting rare materials from common materials actually cost more than just buy them from rare material trader. So, why bother even have material crafting?

Steel Ingot cost 200 to craft, while it only cost you 190 to buy one from rare material trader.

Now I think...why go through all the trouble to craft rare materials?

at one point however it was cheaper to craft some of them. Its there for those times...

If only there was a way to craft ecto. lol JK....

Yea, it used to cost a substantial amount less to craft it...

they're fine

don't you dare touch them! :P they make my access wood into parchment

Thats true steel is outdated. When superior salvage kits came out. People could salvage steel and sell for less than it cost to make thus driving the prices down. Same is true for linnen and parchment to some degree.

Don't worry when nightfall comes out it will be cheaper to craft again, as the demand goes up the prices will go up aswell and crafting will be profitable again.

Yeah, if anything minor vigor will always be too high to be of much use anymore i think, just rather get the major. IT will all go up, problem is, what happens if they run out O_O