Maybe it’s just that we have so many events/challenges/specials now, but crafting items seem to be drying up. For two months in a row, I’ve run out of hardwood lumber (at least Atlantis is this week, and I should get a few from Advanced 13 and 15). Others in the alliance are complaining about midnight roots, dragon bones and other such things that we used to all have way too many of.
Maybe it would be good to give more of these things on the “crafting items” quests (which are near useless in the current form for the measly number of items they give)…