Boring and Tedious: the real problem of crafting

[Mikazuki]

I have to agree with you here. I've not got to the stage where I have a decent level craft but the thing is, I just don't want to. Absolutly no motivation to level any higher. It's not fun and not even rewarding until you get to about rank 40 where you can fix just about anything in that category.

Recently I've just been moaning to myself and my LS members (sorry) about how dull it really is, most agree, most have just about given up on crafting as well.

I'll give you an example for me. I'm rank 24 goldsmith. One level is 25k sp. A single brass ring, (apparently best thing to grind at this level), will yield about 200 sp at this level. So SE want me to synth approximately 125 times, (think about how long one synth takes) to get one level? ONE. I think not!

Then they just go and make it worse! By gimping the sp received from local leves that a high majority of people were using with success to level their crafts. I think something needs to be done, I don't know what exactly, but something.

That's my rant over