I'm a new player and I've got mixed feelings about the crafting system. The act of mining/blacksmithing/etc is fun enough and I like the whole guessing game aspect to it, but I feel like I'm wasting my time when I'm doing crafting leve quests. I don't understand the point of making me run for 10 minutes to a mining node when there's no challenge involved in doing it. It's just needlessly time consuming.