On Crafting...

[Samadhi]

Caveat: I have not followed crafting at any stage of its development. Once I heard that you would have to level in crafting prior to crafting anything good, I knew that it was going to be too grind-tastic for me, and stopped paying attention.

That out of the way:
Some of my more reliable sources of hearsay have been saying that the newest version of crafting on llama alloys for the creation of weapons that not only are significantly better than Green steal but even the few competitive epic weapons. Is this true? Is this really considered a good idea for the game to add even more power-creep to the weapons race, thereby pushing those unwilling to grind for hours at a crafting station out of the DPS running?

I wouldn't post this if the hearsay wasn't from reliable sources, but I am still hoping it is not true. Assuming it is though, I'm curious if anyone sees a bright side to this that can perhaps make me happier in light of the wings fiasco that already has be potentially shelving characters.

[Gkar]

I don't know about new, but even as of two updates ago we could craft +5 silver holy burst of greater lawful outsider bane (or other specific monster DR bypass weapons)

That's certainly more than competitive with GS MinII, but requires you to have more than one weapon.

Of course as of next update with an arti in your party you can now make a LitII temporarily cold iron or silver and also blow away MinII.

[Diyon]

Yes there are weapons kind of like that that will be able to be made, however, its not through the previously mentioned cannith crafting system, its more like green steel crafting. And yes the weapons are generally better than greensteel, but the dps of them is not significantly over existing options (a few points of dps or so over +5 holy burst greater banes), however they have much greater utility than greensteel, in that you can get the good dps plus other things like seeker +10/stunning +10/earthgrab/freezing ice/greater stone prison/etc and a elemental aoe on a 20, red slot + material type.