Crafting and Gathering in Heavensward

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How is it fun to spend hours farming materials to level crafting just 1 level? It requires to much farming of mobs and unspoiled nodes, and that is just for leveling... Leveling should be easy the star crafting should be hard..not both insanely boring.

I think your doing something wrong. Every week you get 42 leves. Thats enough for easily 4-5 levels. It takes roughly 2-3 hours to do those leves gathering the mats yourself, even less buying off market board.