That sinking feeling...

[SamSmoot]

Even with cross-class skills being axed, the sheer amount of stuff you need from other DoH jobs to craft (Aside from ALC/CUL) is going to make most people feel like they're going to need everything leveled regardless.

Yep, and I had spread my craft levels across all 3 beast tribes so I could do all their quests each day. Of course, the disadvantage is when some of them finally hit 70-80, there are always others too low to make the cross class stuff. Of course, if I had leveled them all together, then it would be much slower with only 3 BT quests per day at 50+

The other discouraging thing is leves, which invariably require mats from all over the world, forcing me to use aetherite tickets to go collect them. Or, it requires me to go kill 6 different types of beast, for skins / meat, where it's next to impossible to get HQ.

(I only have two retainers, one botanist, one hunter, both in the 60's, so using them has limits.)