I suppose in a way it did for me. A few months back I grinded a goldsmith to level 23 in a couple of hours. The next day I tried to continue but was left just wanting to kill something in a blood thursty blackmage sort of way. I never went back to it until this quest came a long. I'll admit I did one quest and decided that grinding the tribe wasn't for me, but it did make me try crafting again and now I've gotten my goldsmith to 44 through leves and will be aiming for 50 end of the week.