You pve since you need arena rating for weapons and at least for the moment…they don’t want to cut off the only reason blacksmithing exists. the crafted weapon. remove this…engineering gets god like status for boots, imo. LW can get by too. I like my self use only upgrades anyway.
Imo this is really ham fisted forced setup. they could have made at least a medium grade pvp weapon off the non deadly/savage vendor.
I see that that changning next season. they’d do it sooner but they kind of kicked up the hornet’s nest making alchemy a semi useless profession since all the care packages drops what many need from it.
they don’t want alchemists and blacksmiths forming up to make a massive pitchfork and torch bearing mega mob lol.