Components and Refining. QOL Improvments for crafters.

Aye, one of many reasons. Everything takes forever in shroud. I know my RL activity has changed; I don't have tons of free time. Nowadays when I think of logging in to "play" I tend to think of how much RL progress I could be making on something else.
After working on RL all day, I just don't feel like logging in to a 2nd job.

 

This is what needs to be emphatically understood across the game development community. (I'm looking at you, Roberts Space Industries...)

I love complexity in a game, but it doesn't have to be time consuming and tedious.

 

I think everything sold by the npc should start at 5000 purchasable items .

 

Oh please.... I find that argument ridiculous.
If there's a MOB within aggro range, it's gonna attack you before, during or after that node.
Skinning my 40 thousandth bear should never fail and be quick as a wink.
Same with that dumb ore node.

 

I often drop a half dozen to nearly a dozen mobs, including animals in some scenes. Often, by the time I am JUST completing looting the bodies and skinning the animals, the RNG kicks off some new mobs that interrupt me from skinning. It's been a bit of a challenge to build up my skill in speedy skinning to minimize that.

I find that to be a decent part of the challenge in the game.

I find the processing of the many hundreds of ore, skins, cotton and similar that I have been building up to be tedious. Not everyone is going to feel the same, but I do like that bit of an expediency need with skinning and other harvesting