I never dwelled on the item level of crafted gear until last night when I completed the weekly quest and got a backpack blueprint as the reward and I found that infuriating. Because after all that work, I got a blueprint for something that would never be helpful to my character and it felt really bad. I understand not having crafted gear not go to 500 when you first enter the tier, but once your character is item level 500+ it’s silly for the hard cap to be 490 ☹️
I rolled a couple pair of HardWired Gloves lastnight..
one set was 485,So I figured I'll give it another try just to see..
Rolled a 480 LOL
I'm not sure how much salt is put into the gear score numbers,but the attributes were pretty sorry as well,which was what I was really after..
I think on both sets I didn't hit over like 225 in skill power..
I just figured a set that is leaning more towards skill area would have a little higher floor than that..
We'll see how it goes down the road I guess..