Quote Originally Posted by AlexNiculaie View Post
Most players who craft are not those who do or want to spend hours every day making items. It is insane that making low level items should require such insipid lengths just to gather materials.
These sir, are opinions, I believe. In your opinion, what are "most players who craft"? Perhaps you feel they are players like you, who appear to have focussed on the combat classes, only taking crafting classes to rank 10? Perhaps players that are primarily combat-oriented, and just want to craft in order to make gear for themselves?

I fail to understand why players that are primarily combat-oriented feel entitled to have the crafting system changed on their behalf. Change the combat system so that players who enjoy combat, enjoy it more. Change the crafting system so that players who enjoy crafting, enjoy it more.

Changing the crafting system to make combat classes happier makes just as much sense as changing the combat system to make the crafting classes happier. That is, none.

P.S. Changing the crafting system to make combat classes happier (at the expense of those who enjoy crafting), does make sense under one assumption : That SE has decided to focus their efforts on only attracting / retaining those players that enjoy said combat classes, and are willing to do so at the expense of those that would enjoy crafting classes. This could well be, and if this is SE's intention, I hope that they will come out and say so, so that I can make an informed choice as a consumer.