[Shade]

You're listing one character that has one GM resource gathering skill wow. You saying he's nearing 90 blacksmith. Shards been up for a month and it takes what another 2 more crafting skills along with BS just to make an HH.

Have to consider this is without buying ingots. People will start selling them and people can focus on crafting more than gathering once that happens.

Thats another say 2 months before HH's are even craftable? Thats saying that you start with 3 crafting skills like himself. What about everyone starting at 40? I'm not complaining just stating

Implying that tink and alch take a month each? Carp and Blacksmith are the hardest skills, by quite a bit. The other craft skills are still a bit tough but pale in comparison to those two.

Also starting a character who you plan on making a crafter without starting with the craft skills seems pretty silly.

Its easy for most people to find problems in the here and now without looking at how it may effect the future. Everyone has opinions on how each skills gains should be but I find the current way to be the most balanced for the long run. I didn't make the craft skills hard so players would suffer, I did it for the shards economy to be stable. Granted this also takes the economy longer to get going but once it does it will definitely be worth the wait.