Quick Synthesis - Please speed it up!

[Culfinrandir]

It should take 1 minute max. Then it would be quick synthesis. Now its just "automated" synthesis. Not quick at all.

As I mentioned, it's just not possible in a system that is designed around 'checks & balances' like this one. Sure, it could all be done speedily client side, like in many other games, but it is incredibly easy to cheat the server into believing that you just crafted a stack of 99HQ items that way. Having a stable economy & lack of craft hacking is paid for by crafting (especially quick craft) being slower than ideal.

[Niwashi]

Sure, it could all be done speedily client side, like in many other games, but it is incredibly easy to cheat the server into believing that you just crafted a stack of 99HQ items that way.

It's the servers that decide which crafts come out HQ or NQ, and we already know it can do that noticeably faster than quick synth does, since we can manually craft simple items faster than quick synth does. (Anything that only takes a single synth to finish is slowed down quite a bit by doing quick synth instead.) People aren't asking (necessarily) for the actions to be faster, just that they immediately follow one another at at least the same rate they would if done one-by-one. Or actually, it probably could be a bit quicker than that, since there's less communication needed between client and server during quick synth.

The fact that quick synth is slower than manual one-step synthesis seems fairly clear proof that it isn't about any technical limitations, but just about limiting the usefulness of automated crafting. (Personally, I feel it would have been better to eliminate any possibility of HQ during quick synth, but let it be faster. SE, on the other hand, not only chose to allow HQ, but even updated it to increase the HQ chance. If they're relying instead on the slow speed to keep it from being overused, then they're not going to speed it up.)