Ok, I've decided to get into crafting. But I have a few questions first.
I was going to buy the ingredients I needed to begin crafting this weekend from the whole saler. Well, he has nothing that I need for sale (and I'm talking level 3 stuff here... I haven't progressed beyond one craft till 4, as I was on the island)! Is this because I need to finish the gathering quest (work order quest) from the NPC in the guild union?
As for the quest itself, where on earth do I go about gathering this stuff? I got a quest to gather some sort of root, went into the forest, and gathered for about an hour and didn't get one of the type of root that I was supposed to get. I then went back and asked for a new work order and he gave me one to get wood. Well, I went back into the forest and could hardly find any trees so I gave up. For those of you who are crafting, where on earth do you gather stuff for your work orders?