Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
Crafting and gathering is something I still greatly enjoy above everything else. However, I also don't craft and gather like everyone else; or rather, not for the same reasons most do. When I notice 90% of the crafters in over-melded facet gear don't have their own signature on their gear, it makes me wonder how many players actually enjoy crafting and gathering.

Uhm, it depend on what you define as enjoyment? It could be someone who goes all in "gathering is so fun and OMG I love crafting so much!!", and that someone ... is not me. I still craft thing, and my enjoyment is defined at the point "that I make a lot of saving making my own gears". I don't really sale stuff, and I tend not to be very active during the "catch up" patch cycle where the new gathering/crafting set are released. For example, in this patch cycle I only got back to crafting when 6.4 was close to release. I didn't feel like to farm my own mat and made my own set of crafting/gathering gears. I play on multiple chars, and I want to gear up each char with at least 2 jobs, sometime three, that means it would cost me A LOT if I buy all those gears of MB. So ... my enjoyment here comes from the fact I don't have to spend 20-30mil on gears. I don't "enjoy" gathering/crafting in the "yippie yippie" sense, but that's not a bad thing, it's just a mean to an end. From level, gather, to crafting and selling, to saving and making gil, that's just a process. And people can enjoy different part of that process.


I have found that the lowest common denominator seeks instant gratification, takes the easy and fast road, and don't care at all about the journey and aim straight for the destination.
The whole "it's about the journey not the destination" mindset is merely one option, and I don't find that option is any more superior than to the others, i.e the people who prefer to focus at the destination. As long as they don't complain about it themselves later. Say, your destination is a beach in another country. You may try to take a road trip there, enjoy the scenery and all that before reaching the beach, that's fine. But if other people prefer to just board a plane and fly straight there so they can spend more time enjoying the beach, I don't see anythign wrong or bad with that.