What bothers you most about the current synthesis system?

[Syris]

Oh snap, didn't expect so many people to agree.

When I first heard about the crafting system before the game was even released, I honestly expected a unique mini-game for each craft. What we got was beyond underwhelming.

And when I say mini-game, I don't mean the same kind of crappy multi-option text-based system we have now, I mean an actual game. People get addicted to incredibly simple puzzle games like Tetris and Bejeweled and incorporating something like that into crafting would make it far more accessible I feel.

The crafting game is tedious, but I don't think fun minigames will fix the issue.

When I craft in other games I enjoy it for several reasons:

- I feel productive
- Self-reliant to some extent
- Income and opportunity
- Becoming known for my trade - which this game lacks without specialization or choice
(but I understand that the crafting design mirrors the class play design to some extent)
- Working with a network of known crafters

I don't want to see mini games pushed further (I would actually prefer to see them go), because after the one hundredth time of attempting to put together an item, I simply wont want to play a mini game any longer. To an extent I think that this approach actually compounds the issue further (mini games + bad crafting UI, bad AH design, non-existent mail systems)

So imho, keep mini games as mini games - something to do when you are bored and NOT something you HAVE to do when you want to craft.