I've been trying to get my crafting classes higher than 10 for a month and the more I try, the more I want to quit FFXIV entirely. This is a bad thing as I'm sure we can all agree, as players are important to this game. To this end my poor LS mates have been subject to my harassment and anger and it made for some enlightening conversations about how the grind could be made less monotonous, or at the very least less inductive to rage quitting XIV all together.

A lot of people are advocating auto crafting, I'm not actually ok with that. I think it would be much better if you got additional XP for crafting additional items each synth. For arguments sake let's say you get 100 XP from 1 iron bar. Crafting 3 iron bars should give you 300 XP, 100 XP for each iron bar you made. With this we could maybe only see HQing only available with single melds, but that is a different discussion we can have. I also think it would be better if you could make multiple things like gauntlets too so with the additional XP. The small addition of XP for each item made, instead of per single synth would make the grind easier overall which I think would be a good thing. If implemented in addition to the topic by Xannonite: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Chain-Bonuses could very well make crafting reasonable an something more people will enjoy.