Ara the Gratuitous.6870

I can understand your frustration with the system being pretty bloated and drawn out, but that's the whole point of legendary crafting. It's supposed to be very involved, expensive, and time-consuming, in order to give weight to the fact that you have the item. This viewpoint was eventually reinforced when legendary equipment was changed over to account-bound, so folks couldn't just buy Chuka and Champawat off the TP. Now, anybody who has the weapon, has clearly put in the time and effort to do the collections, level their crafting, etc. etc. etc. in order to get the final weapon. I get that it's frustrating. I don't craft legendaries, because according to my sensibilities, they aren't interesting enough or worthwhile enough for me to invest in it. If they were easier to craft, I'd probably do it. But then they wouldn't be legendary weapons. ANet won't make them easier to obtain, and they really shouldn't.