Hi,
Had similar post about this in Discord, but no one from administration reacted to it, so I will try once again here.
I do have on my character maxed Essencetapping (499), Aethertapping (499) and right now 508 in Armorsmithing. Also I realize that when it comes to crafting most people doing Cooking or Alchemy (food/scrolls) because it's easy money and items goes well in economy. What about all other crafts? It is very visible even if you run through crafting zones that almost no one is doing anything except my previously mentioned crafts. To me reason is clear - to make worth selling items in Weaponsmithing, Tailoring or Armorsmithing takes huuuuge amount of luck, recourses and kinah. Time wise it is not worth at all, so you have chunk of game content sitting there useless.
What I want to suggest to server admins - change max gathering level to 510 for example, so we can gather all 499 faster and without annoying fails. If thats not possible - change success rate and gathering speed for those 499 resources. Just do something to speed up this process.
PS. i'm not asking better crafting success rates, because I like gathering process itself, just cannot stand anymore this gathering for two hours to be able to make yellow lvl 65 item.
Thanks.