So how does DF loot work? Why buy crafted gear?

I tried beta you need 1000s upon 1000s upon 1000s upon 1000s of mats to level up crafting and make decent gear. You can make better than M0 gear right off the bat and skip M0 all together. On beta to test crafting out npcs sell eveything you need to craft for a couple silver. That isn’t going to be the case in the live game these mats going to be expensive on the ah no doubt.

This is going to promote degen game play people spending like $5000 on tokens to buy up all the mats on the AH to get their crafting up to level.