Please SE consider these ideas

[i2agnarok]

1) I don't understand how a fish becomes a crystal. I really have no idea how this even works from a lore perspective, but you can get crystals from other gathering stuff. I don't see how its needed, unless I'm missing something....some elaboration may be required. Well, fishing is the one thing crafting class I haven't actually touched at all, so maybe they don't have a method of gathering crystals like a miner would, or something.....enlighten me.

2) The academy idea is already covered in class quests and guildhests. People just skipped the hests (including myself, until I was forced to do them in order to get new story stuff) and I really have no idea how the concepts don't sink in through a combination of those and just reading the tooltips. Maybe they could somehow make the concept of how to tank a bit more....dumbed down, for lack of a better way of phrasing it, to make it easier to follow....or the consequences of overhealing. Personally, I think people should be able to process this through basic observation, but I am clearly mistaken.

I think maybe if class quests were repeatable in a sense to brush up on the basics, that may be something, though. Or maybe available as like a Solo Trial or something, that could work. In hindsight, I guess I'm actually agreeing with you on some front.