So I've been wanting to level a 2nd character because I know several friends on another datacenter, and the main thing stopping me, or at least giving me pause, is how bad leveling crafting is.

But yet, to repair gear, you have to do it unless you want to pay out the nose to repair your gear at the mender. And not just one craft, but most of them because different gear needs different crafts.

The Ixals are just plain annoying, I think the first thing that could be done there, is to rework them to make them function similarly to the other 2 tribes currently in the game, get rid of the glove requirements, and the debuffs while crafting, etc all make it rather annoying to actually do the Ixal quests, and perhaps get rid of some of the travelling (make all the quests happen in North Shroud) as well.

Perhaps boost the amount of XP you get from making items would be nice too, and/or rework some of the recipes to be a little less annoying.

It is faster than ever to level a DoW or DoM class from 1 to 50 but yet it is still slow and annoying to level all of those crafts to get up to 50. Let's change that.