I've heard from some people that crafting is a lot easier in ARR. We do have that Alpha video of crafting and it showed how the new process is. My crafting classes are low, so these new methods of crafting should really bring me up to speed in ARR. It was way too tedious in 1.0 for crafting, so I'm hoping it'll be easier in ARR. Oh, and the gathering looks easier, too! I'm not sure if you guys were ever going to talk about either crafting and gathering classes with grinding or any forms of quests, but I am sure that gathering will be much better and easier to do, too