People don't know there is a cap so if the wanted to power level a Gnome o
16th to let him tinker away they would have. The cap only hurts people, it
will not crush the market. No one cares about tinkering because there isn't
many useful things to make. In your example you said a master jeweler still
needs enchanted bars more than likely the guild is going to provide those for
you, hence it doesn't matter. The major reason I have heard from people why
they will NOT take up tinkering is because, "it sucks there is noting to make
and it takes several hundred plat per skill point" I have heard that from so
many people BOTH of the level 50 Gnomes on my server said that, Silvera and
Grumblethorpe. The cap should be removed because tinkering is just like any
other trade skill with the exception only gnomes can advance in it, and I say
advance in it because any race can tinker. I have tinkered with every race
except trolls and ogres because I kept getting killed by the guards, my dark
elf was a necro so he had invis and I had good faction with the merchant.

Efrieum
Warrior 34
doesn't believe you should be level 50 to play the game