Quote Originally Posted by ValkyrieL View Post
the NEXT tier off crafting items should not required any favors at all, this favor system needs to stay ONLY for making the 2 star crafting sets/future gathering sets.
I couldn't agree more; favors need to go. Even if they did nothing else to improve the system, getting rid of favors (and making the 2-star mats ONLY require crafting red scrips) would alleviate one very large problem with the current endgame, at least in my eyes. Namely, the crafting endgame involves very little actual crafting. The vast majority (95%) of your time is gathering: gather the mats for your red gathering turn ins, gather your mats for your red crafting turn ins, and the cherry on top? 4 MORE HOURS of gathering with favors. Then when you *finally* get all your mats and sit down to craft the 2, maybe 3 gear pieces for the week...it takes you 30 min. TOPS. Just getting rid of those stupid favors would eliminate a lot of the grind that's getting so many crafters down.