You know what, I will complain a LOT about this game (it deserves it) but I won't really complain too much about guild tasks. Its something that I was not expecting and its at least something new to try out. I don't really like crafting as I found it boring but with this it gives me a chance to use some of my random items I have lying in my inventory. This was the first time I tried crafting something that was NOT a from a local leve.

This feels like it was more like someone (like a specific random dev) had a idea and figured they could implement this fairly quickly with the existing code, or they had it in the bank of unused code and just needed to finish it. Yes it feels half baked like everything else but its a start, also if your lower level like I am with crafting it gives me you extra goal to try and complete.

Also this NPC line made the whole thing 1000% better for me.
Bodenolf: Th' Admiral's got us workin' the forges day and night, readyin' the armada fer somethin' big. Left our stockhouses bare as a whore's back end, it has, but the guilds ain't got the manpower t' plenish 'em. 'Tis why the forgemaster started postin' tasks on the wall o' th' Wench. Might ye be interested?