I can see User's point, though I think his attitude is more of a detriment to his argument.

I personally think they are moving crafting in the wrong direction... and before they give us this new leve issuance system they need to fix alot of fundamental problems with leves.

It seems that for every change they announce that gives me hope, they announce another one that makes me cringe. I'm not trolling, it's really how I feel.

I've played MMO's before where they've made the mistake of thinking that in order to appeal to casual players they needed to dumb down the rate of achievement, and I see far too many precursors in the announcements for this game to feel completely comfortable with where the game is headed.

I'm still willing to wait and see... but it's hard to be completely optimistic.