Crafting is O.K. I personally find it quite boring but I can understand why players like it... On the other hand - Gathering... I really can't find anything attracting in it... It's basically run in a circle and spam 0 numkey... Completly braindead activity. I'm more of a fighter type but even on 1.0 I found gathering much more fun...

And yes, I'm doing it for 2 reasons:

1. to finish the quest chains and story.
2. to have all classes 50 just for the warm feeling of having lots of 50 on my profile menu XD

I won't touch it after i achive these goals