Mat Economy?

[Julia.]

At which point do you call yourself rich or poor?

You can craft everything you want as Housecraftables without any issues and its perfectly fine to play just with them.
Legendaries are nice to have but not nessecary. My main concern is looting sth craftable/with a fixed price.
You might or you might not loot but ingeneral that wont change if you're rich or poor. You may loot sth worth 2-3m and then you'd call yourself rich? I doubt it, you'd probably say "why did I only get this and that?". I farmed 95% of my Items, which makes about 80% of my total value. I've bought a few legendaries for craftables and cash and resold some for craftables and cash.
I was lucky once within a long timeframe, yes, and I see others who looted 8 times whilst playing nearly the same runs.

I crafted about 4 or more complete sets, just by myself farming the mats for it. I use my legendary loot, but I didn't turn rich from one day to the other just because I looted an Item which fills up one slot.

There should be a strict line between craftable and lootable, if you can loot craftables I'd also like to craft legendarys in exchange... which would kinda remove all the sense of them been legendaries.

To sum it up, in my eyes you play for mats and cash, you can play perfectly with craftables and when you're lucky you happen to get a bonus on top. But you can't force the game to drop you sth, additional it aint even safe that you'd ever loot an upgradematerial if it was implemented.