Integrating Crafting and Gathering. Ideas?

[Shadygrove]

I would love to have my own workshop with employees to reduce annoying steps like craft 20 hq ingots for example, something similar to SwG and manufacturing system. (http://swg.wikia.com/wiki/Manufacturing)

Do you use crafting macros?

They tired to integrate crafting and gathering better in 1.x by letting you start as any class at all. I took an alt to 20+ as CRP. It didn't really integrate them better, but gave more variety.