Why such illogical choices for crafting?

[tymora]

We need some kind of "Bulk-Crafting" Mechanism

No, we don't need an auto-crafter.

2) Where are the Recipes? Where are the NPC's who give you recipes?

Hence the need for a community. One person gets 8 recipes. 10 people gets 80 recipes. Everyone shares, everyone happy...theoretically of course. Well, we always end up on 3rd-party database sites anyway regardless of MMO, even those that give you all the recipes in-game.

What we need is a "recipe book" to record all the recipes we learned from leves and successfully synthed.