Quote Originally Posted by MN_14 View Post
If you want to be effective as a crafter, being able to manually handle long synths is something that you'll have to get used to. Of course there's a learning curve involved like all of the game's systems, so it's something that has to be practiced.
Ahaha! That darn learning curve! I don't use macro's either but I came to ARR a couple months before HW's release. I got one class to 50 and the rest were leveled much slower. I didn't get them to 50 until a month or two ago. /sigh Perhaps because I didn't experience the lvl 50 crafting in ARR, I get some sort of a learning curve or something that's beating on me.

I loved crafting pre-50. I HQed everything I could. I did the daily GC and leveled my other classes together, and that was fun. Other crafters would laugh at me for making everything HQ but whatever. I liked getting the HQ process down. It's like a mini-game to me. Didn't use macro's. My gear wasn't great but it was okay. And now? It feels so frustrating. I know my craft class levels would be higher if I just stopped caring about HQ and would turn in NQ but that feels so cheap. There's no fun in it yet not matter how hard I try, it's still feels a bit like luck to HQ stuff.

I'm trying your suggestions and they seem to help more than what I was doing, so hopefully I can turn this around.