Crafting mini quests

Everyone knows grinding crafting level is boring. What if we introduced mini-quests for Crafting, similar to those already available for Gathering, to make the process a little more enjoyable?

Players would receive a quite amount of Crafting XP by delivering items that meet specific requirements, such as a certain level range, ranges for several IDs, durability, duration, or charges.

This would provide an alternative to simply mass-producing countless useless items to level up. Instead, players could work on puzzles to figure out how to craft specific items, collecting the ingredients needed for the item from various places (or simply buying them from the Trade Market, of course).

The developers would have considerable control over the balance by adjusting the XP rewards, the required item levels, and other conditions. So I don't think this would disrupt the game's balance, but I hope it could make leveling a little less tedious.

I also think this fits the overall design philosophy of Professions quite well: Gathering is about quantity over quality, whereas Crafting is about quality over quantity.

The only potential issue I can think of is that players might be able to craft the required items on another character and use them to skip a significant portion of the leveling process on their second character. I'm not sure how problematic this would actually be though.

 

Everywhere, all around the world, the sound of 100%ers screamed

 

How dare you add cool, fun things to my content book that I have to go back and complete. Don't you know professions are just about making number go up as slowly and painfully as possible???