Why such illogical choices for crafting?

[Davorok]

I have been trying to level my GoldSmithing (so that I can repair my own jewelery) but my 2 biggest beefs are thus:

1) We need some kind of "Bulk-Crafting" Mechanism, ie., I crafted over 100 Copper Rings 1 at a time! The process is cumbersome and annoying and needs to be streamlined.

2) Where are the Recipes? Where are the NPC's who give you recipes? I should not have to go to a 3rd-Party website to learn how to Craft a Daily Guild Item or any item for that matter. Yes I know some recipes are "learned" from certain Leves and Quests but they are few and far between. Trial & Error just doesn't cut it. Give me an ingame method to learn Recipes, preferably from Guild NPC's.

[tymora]

We need some kind of "Bulk-Crafting" Mechanism

No, we don't need an auto-crafter.

2) Where are the Recipes? Where are the NPC's who give you recipes?

Hence the need for a community. One person gets 8 recipes. 10 people gets 80 recipes. Everyone shares, everyone happy...theoretically of course. Well, we always end up on 3rd-party database sites anyway regardless of MMO, even those that give you all the recipes in-game.

What we need is a "recipe book" to record all the recipes we learned from leves and successfully synthed.

[MariyaShidou]

Trial & Error just doesn't cut it. Give me an ingame method to learn Recipes, preferably from Guild NPC's.

Trial and Error used to be fun for player economy. Being one of the only three person who know how to make X or Y and you could charge hefty amount of money. That was how some people have 100m gil and some people have 1m gil in the beginning.