There's nothing wrong with crafting.
But the way the materials are collected, now that was a bad idea.(way too slow to be of use)
Questing for materials has to be the slowest way to gain mats needed and way too ramdom when opening boxes.
Give us some map zones that we can gather the materials, let the materials come from mobs as a drop(would be nice to know what can drop from what critter)
And return the ltq's to award units or gear.