So, my alts’ crafting has, to this point, languished. I’m trying to get them up to where they should be for their level (or, hopefully, a bit higher, so they can start making gear for each other), and the worst part of it all is the waiting.

Waiting for logout timers. Waiting for travel cooldown timers. Waiting for crafting progress bars. There has to be a better way to do the levelling portion of crafting. I don’t mind hunting for materials, or tracking down shard droppers. I don’t mind grinding for critical components, either. It’s the waiting.

In fact, I would even prefer that crafting training took 10x as long as it does (in terms of time to craft, not necessarily material use), so long as I could do something else on the current or other characters while the crafting happened. I could craft in smaller batches, but then I’m losing more time to the logout and login fiasco. Lose/lose.

The other option is to go the crafting- and material-efficient route and just use guild recipes, which are highly efficient. Their cooldowns, though, mean I’d have to back off on my characters’ levelling. It just seems like, one way or the other, if I’m working on crafting, I’m not actually playing the characters involved. Crafting - at least while you’re working on mastery - is a lot like ProgressQuest.

It’s useful, so I’ll do it, but I really wish I could be more constructive and come up with some alternative that doesn’t involve session after session of aurochs slaughter and progress bars.

Do you have a method that works for you?