The last three pages of this thread should indicate one thing very clearly: Crafting is not even close to making sense.

I'm sorry, but I am not a liar, Standard is the only thing that has worked for me. It is slow and boring. The special moves have not done anything to help my crafting, also not a lie. Now maybe that changes as I get higher in levels (look at my character profile before leaping to conclusions).

Blindly and glibly defending the system obviously isn't working you guys. Many things need to change before anybody can claim the system is good. One thing is clear to me, some of us really need to relax and quit acting as though we have some financial stake in the success of this game. Trust me, the crafting system is not making sense, this is universally accepted by people who play more than just FFXIV.