Crafting needs to be fun or needs to be automated.

[Coglin]

I, personally, think all this mini game talk, and make crafting fun talk is a bunch of crap. I an almost everyon I know does not play MMOs to have a good time leveling a craft. Sure one you have the class maxed, making HQ items can be fun. But lets face it, the tedious task of getting there is a pain. Forget those stupid motavational posters in the business place that say its the journey, and all that crap, they have never leveled a FFXIV DoH, the journey generally sucks.

Lets face it, its a long tedious task, that no mini game will ever make truelly enjoyable. And your going to do it solo. Which is another down side. An MMO, which by definition, is about grouping and interacting with other players, seems a little bass ackwards, to have 7 classes of DoH in which interacting with other players offers almost no benefit. One can get all the items they need from either being a DoL themselves, or simply heading to the wards to purchase a stack of the next item needed to make a million more of the same item, all alone, in a corner somewhere.

The only way I see to truely make crafting better or even remotely fun, will be to significantly raise the XP gain per synth or leve.