SHORT AND TO THE POINT... MAKE INSTANCE/RAID GEAR BETTER THAN CRAFTED!

Crafted gear at lvl 50 (on the new legendary servers) are Item lvl 53, whereas the RIFT GEAR which is end-game raid for the new server is only item lvl 50. You literally just have to use crafting components to get top gear...

My suggestion is make crafted gear item lvl 50 and make end game (rift, helegrod, annuminas) item lvl 51-53... 51 being annuminas, 52 being helegrod and 53 being rift. Make us have a reason to run these instances and obtain the gear.