Currency - Huge Problem

I do not understand why 'crafting' materials are the currency. It is entirely too much to keep track of.

Why have X = Y2 = Z3 when you can just have gold is gold and you trade for gold.

It seems rather ridiculous that we trade outside of the currency that the game accepts as natural (NPCs sell items for gold).

I genuinely don't understand the concept.

built in deflation, its pretty smart actually. Gambling/respec is the only use for gold, if gold had value in trading no one would do anything but use it to trade, prices would inflate even worse than people are complaining about now.

Crafting currency is not hard to learn.

You have Ex which is basically change, and divs which are dollars. Market is volatile right now, but basically 1 div is 60ex, if an item is listed for 2 div, you can go the currency exchange and trade 120 ex and buy your item.

New players, and especially those not even to t15 yet, let alone doing double corrupted, don't need anything in any slot worth more than 20-50ex.