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Crafting XP, level progression, getting punished for selling stuff and 'Tards Who Steal Resource spawns

Ok, this one's gonna be long, so get comfortable.

OK, to begin with. Crafting xp. What the fuck? In the time it took me to get from level eight blacksmith to level nine, a guildie of mine had gone from 11 psionicist to 14 psi. Too damn slow! I've seen level 22 groups of adventurers. Highest crafter I have seen is 15, and that guy hasn't stopped since launch, not even to sleep. Doesn't get more simple then that. But it doesn't stop there, no, no it doesn't.

When I was 8 BSmith, I was doing moderate difficulty work order's and taking them to B or sometimes A without a trouble, I hit nine and suddenly every single moderate Work Order is nigh impossible for me. I have to stop as soon as I hit quality C if I want any chance at all of getting the stupid thing to completion. Which, you know, blows. It slows down the leveling even further, so you can only actually get xp from doing easy work orders, which give crap all! I know crafting is supposed to get harder the higher you go, but this is bloody ridiculous! Going from A/B everytime to not being able to ever get B, on Work Orders that are supposedly the same difficulty for you at each level. Not bloody likely!

Now onto the thing that has really been pissing me off lately. I know the reasoning behind not getting xp for crafting actual items, its to stop people flooding the market and grinding out that way, because they actually give more xp then WOs. But the real outcome of it is that you punish crafters who actually want to make money before cap. Yesterday I stopped leveling and started crafting at level 8, made a crapload of cash, yes, but now I am 4/5 levels behind the guys I was leveling with and there is no way in hell I'll ever catch up. And I'm rapidly running out of people to actually buy the stuff I *can* actually craft, because they're all leveling their adventuring too fast and I simply can't keep up with my blacksmithing. It's complete bullocks!

Ok, thats the stuff that affects everybody, now onto a more personal thing. One specific bard, whose name I will not mention because I, unlike him, have class, yesterday was running around stealing harvesting nodes out from under groups' noses while they were clearing the mobs. First time this happened to me, I was kinda pissed off, but my partner rightly pointed out that he could've thought we were trying to do the quest for the mobs that guarded this particular node. The second time, however, when we just cleared it and this bard runs in, trying to get the node. That time he's a f'n tard. Luckily the second time we tapped the node quick enough to stop him. Didn't stop him going and doing it to the group harvesting stone on the otherside of the rock we were at. This bard is officially the first on my shi... err... black list. Will not get any service, deals or crap all from me or from anybody I can get to listen or do business with. Cos this crap just doesn't fly.