What the hell is wrong with crafting?

[Derkatron]

I haven't played in awhile before 1.19, but it feels the same to me, I recall doing +6 synths to get ~500 sp a craft, and being very frustrated early on by the occasional unavoidable failure when the synth totally goes awry from the start, even on even level synths. I agree with your assessment of the frustrating randomness and excessive volume of crafts necessary over level 30, but I don't agree that it's new...

[Hachiko]

I haven't played in awhile before 1.19, but it feels the same to me, I recall doing +6 synths to get ~500 sp a craft, and being very frustrated early on by the occasional unavoidable failure when the synth totally goes awry from the start, even on even level synths. I agree with your assessment of the frustrating randomness and excessive volume of crafts necessary over level 30, but I don't agree that it's new...

The difference is that before there were a lot of "easy" recipes to level on, that produced a ton of mats which could generally be used to make a lot of synths.

The new thing is that now, take carpentry for example, you get 1 lumber per log instead of 4. And there's no longer halfmasks to make to level giving you 4 synths per log. Now you get 1 lumber per log, and there are fewer things to make that simply take 1 log, making it much more tedious to gather all the various mats you need to spam the 50 weapons / armor peices you need to level.