Yeah, there's not enough ways to get scrip(all doing turnins, and crafting using your own materials) and the stuff you use to make the special 2 star stuff is just too hard to get. It's obviously gated, and obviously not fully implemented. There's also a weird dearth of certain recipes like potions n' stuff.

If you care this much about crafting in MMOs though, I donno where you're going. Vanguard's gone and that's the only game out there that made making things an actual system in and of itself.