Crafting takes too long and the mini-game is boring

[Reika]

There's plenty skill in crafting if you want to pop out +2 and +3s. But no matter what the system is you'll never add any skill to simple skill up synths.

I agree some changes can be made to the user interface to make it faster such as that continue leaves have being applied to every synth, but leave the actual synthing alone.

You can already do fast synths of low rank items, that's what hasty hand is for. Most of the time spent in a hasty hand synth is preparing it, so add that continue button and you'll be synthing low rank stuff at insane speeds. I think the ability itself could be improved, such as when the hasty hand action fails. It shouldn't sometimes immediately destroy the item.

Then why did I just HQ3 an alch recipie, making 8 fire crystals instead of 2, using no skills and standard synth? Also I have 0 int. A little over 200 qual, since it was a +2 Miter shell.

Meanwhile, I get NQ after getting over 500 qual on iron nuggets while actually trying to HQ. 126 Mnd.

Does spamming enter take skill?

Bottom line is, the reward for taking your time to raise the quality of a synthesis is not present. It is all random as hell. RNG. Which goes back to the OP's point: Crafting takes too long, is boring, and involves no skill.