Absolute pain and suffering! I just did my first Class-A Aetherial Reduction mission on Miner; the first time I completed one was a Class-B mission, and I successfully got gold on that one with no problem. This Class-A mission, however, is an absolute travesty. How is one simply supposed to get the Silver or Gold ratings in only three minutes?

The mission is called A-2: Alchemical Refinement Materials. You have 3 minutes to collect as many collectables as possible and reduce them to make up at least 25 Aetherial dust. If you get the bare minimum of 25, that doesn't even reward you with Silver, you need more than that! You have to sit down and manually reduce all the collectables you gathered, which eats up a lot of the mission time. You sit there praying to the RNG lords that you receive loads of aetherial dust, it is horrendously ridiculous.

Square Enix should change the time limit and/or possibly skip the aetherial reduction step or make it so you can reduce multiple collectables at once.

After completing all 8 DoH relics to level 9, concocting the best macros for specialist and non-specialist crafters and figuring out different methods to work on the progress and quality, DoL Stellar Missions feel like an absolute nightmare. The only gathering job in Cosmic Exploration I genuinely like is fisher. I've learned a lot in just the first 6 levels of the fisher relic - and I've yet to try the A-class missions for those.

Please Square Enix, if you're reading - make changes to the Miner and Botanist Class-A missions. Some of the timings are too strict and rely on a lot of RNG instead of skill to get the higher ratings.