Possibly Largest Problem Facing The Game (Crafting)

[ieatsocks]

I think a large problem of crafting right now is actually the levequests.

It encourages the grind of logging on, grabbing your 8 crafting leves, and just sitting there for some bonus of sorts.

For 1-2 hours. You'll grab the reward in various random places, too.

You'll gain exp, probably some profit, but it's too tedious. It's finally a bit better with inventory sort and gear breaking less often - that just made it even more of a pisser.

That's not fun in the least. It's more like a job. FFXI had crafting done pretty well - you had to find materials yourself, utilize the AH, and some quests IIRC gave you some materials. This method right now just encourages a two hour grind, and I'm pretty sure everyone & their dog has a craft levelled now (which is fine! but with this current broken system it gives me no incentive to try my own anymore, someone else already grinded for 100 hours - taking no effort at all).

I don't even wanna begin on the inane amounts of random items needed for a piece of equipment.