The crafting gear, Aesthete stuff, for crafters. Crafters don't scale the same and melding makes it better than it is, so crafters can usually go all the way to the next cap without having to switch gear if you have melded gear.
Combat classes(using exarchic) will replace all their shit by the 2nd/3rd dungeon. I mean, you won't find full sets, so you'll only replace some pieces on the first char, but the more chars you level, the more gear you get, until you have full set of every dungeon so it becomes easy to replace.
What I meant is, gearing your crafter right now to be able to self craft Exarchic might not be worth it, depending on how much you invest into the crafters, versus just buying the gear directly cheaply. If you invest say 2m into gearing your crafters, you have to consider exactly how many exarchic sets you're gonna make and what's the cost of making them versus buying them(market price - materials price) and if it's worth it at all.
Also have to remember that exarchic sets, while adequate, aren't really that good and once the expansion hits, if you do various roulettes everyday(mostly the alliance raid, and MSQ if you can stomach that shit), you get a ton of poetics, and once EW hits, all the current 530 tome gear will be available for poetics at half price+100. That means 3000poetics buys you a full set of armor+accs, 600 for the weapon. It becomes pretty easy to just have full 530 gear on every class you play past the first couple just from the poetics you'll get at that point, so that 520 gear becomes obsolete on classes you don't plan on leveling asap. That's why my plan is to gear my monk and healer stuff with current 530 savage/tome gear, I already have phys DPS geared up, and I'm not touching the rest. I'll buy full 530 tank/caster/ninja/reaper shit with poetics I get after the expansion starts, and since I plan on doing MNK > SCH+SGE, I'll have plenty of times to get these poetics(500 per week from BLU, 500 for allegory tomes conversion, 100+ a day from alliance roulette and obviously start expansion with 2000 saved up, so literally first day I can buy a full set for tank).
Now if you're planning on playing the classes before the expansion a bunch, then sure it's worth getting exarchic to at least have a baseline. Just meant, you won't need full exarchic on everything, because you'll likely replace a bunch of it before you even get to play the class due to poetics 530 gear(unless you do a weird play every class for 1 level thing, and even then you'll probably get enough poetics).
