Crafting class progression seems tedious and sluggish

After spamming enter a million times and essentially only needing to use standard synthesis for most of what I find myself needing to craft, it seems that the current rate of progression and flat out boring method of crafting is just a big time sink. I'm surprised people seem so satisfied with the way crafting is. I really can't understand wherein lies the fun of this system. Lots and lots and lots of just hearing tools banging around while gaining relatively minor amounts of sp to a large requirement of sp. I dread crafting, I avoid it as much as possible despite that I've loved it in most all other mmos I've played(no I'm not referring to WoW). Taking almost months to get a rank 50 crafting class would be fine with me, but please just spice things up a bit. This is not a troll post so criticise or support my claims based on this opinion I honestly hold.

If possible, try to stick with recipes 5ish ranks above you and you'll get solid SP, and acceptable SP from fails.

As for what made me really like the crafting at first was that my main source of comparison was FFXI. Same with gathering. Compared to crafting/gathering in that game, I loved XIV's versions. That's worn off now though.

very few people actually enjoy crafting (some do). However many people enjoy using bots to level them up overnight while they sleep or when they go to work, then using those bots to craft things that get them a lot of gil, and then using that gil to buy cool equipment.

Well, coming from someone that doesn't leve link often enough to mention it, SP gained from crafting/gathering is reliable and not nearly as slow as you might think. Overall, they're a lot less frustrating then trying to rank up a combat class when getting max 300 SP off even enemies, leve or otherwise, 10 ranks over myself.

And while crafting has a bit of a timed element to it, gathering is free to be as you please, and it's easy to talk with LS mates as you go. Though gathering, of any type, is a really simple little mini-game, it can still be fun, and has enough depth, if you go into detail, to keep you paying attention. Crafting has a random element that can be a little frustrating, but overall, so long as you do difficult synths rather then spamming easy ones, it can be fairly encompassing... just don't do it for six hours at a time :). Take a break to gather, do a bit of combat, or just socialize.

i level crafts and I do not spam standered. infact most times I fail doung so.... and these are on crafts lower rank then me. There is meaning in crafting. I'm slowly figuring it out but for the most part I found after the first selection process aka standere is a hit more miss I select a type baseed on what the light orb looks like. Like if it white flickering i do rapid syth and depanding on my rank i get a suceed. For yellow I tend to do bold. And i get that to suceed. I rarely if ever use standered. I've tried just spamming standdred and seeing what happens I tend to have an element go unstable. If I do not spam 1 type that never happens.

if yiu actually read the crafting tutorial (and yes there is 1) ud find that out :)

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

i level crafts and I do not spam standered. infact most times I fail doung so.... and these are on crafts lower rank then me. There is meaning in crafting. I'm slowly figuring it out but for the most part I found after the first selection process aka standere is a hit more miss I select a type baseed on what the light orb looks like. Like if it white flickering i do rapid syth and depanding on my rank i get a suceed. For yellow I tend to do bold. And i get that to suceed. I rarely if ever use standered. I've tried just spamming standdred and seeing what happens I tend to have an element go unstable. If I do not spam 1 type that never happens.

if yiu actually read the crafting tutorial (and yes there is 1) ud find that out :)

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Im 34+ in 7 crafting jobs all spamming standard while watching movies or T.V show seasons.