The Current State of Specialist Actions

[Silverbane]

Also, scrips are a nightmare and a ridiculous excuse of a time sink and artificial difficulty increase.

I disagree. I find maxing my Red crafter's scrip trivial to do. Generally it take me under two hours. I keep a good stock of likely mats for them, and replenish much of that stock by sending my retainers out on ventures during the week. I can hit the top collectability tier using mainly NQ mats and cheap food, so I quick-synth most of the intermediate mats.

Having all crafts (except CUL) geared to L60 2-star stat requirements or better and waiting for a good gold-starred turn-in helps.