Crafting Leveling and redundent quests

[RahJah]

My wife started playing FFXIV with me last week. She provides great non-biased opinions on the game. She likes the graphics and the way you can make your own gear. She really likes the gathering minigames.

Problem: She quit playing after finding that she would have to repeat the same leves over and over again to lvl her gathering and crafting skill. She says that this is redundent to have to repeat the same leve.

Solution: Add more leves. One leve for every item you can possilbly make (except for a few unique recipies). After a person has complete the leve quest for an item they earn the recipe and the ability to make that item on their own in game. This would abolish repetative grinding, but it could still be time consuming so that we don't reach cap level in a day.

[tymora]

That will still be effectively "repeating leves" no? Even if the item itself is randomized.

[RahJah]

We would not have to do the same leve twice.

There could be a small amount of lore tied to each item to keep things interesting. (i.e. "My kid needs some gloves, but I don't know how to make them... will you help me out?")

The items should not be randomized completely. Low level items should be done near the city and high level items should require travel to more dangerous places.

After we complete a leve we could attain the recipe. Once we have attained the recipe, if we have the ingredients, we could make that item.

[tymora]

Think no one reads them any more after the 10th...