They should give you the option of melting down more than one crafting item in Baldwin’s cauldron - make it level-dependent, fine, like 1 item at level 1, 2 at 2, etc., but at least make it more than one. I can’t sit around all day watching the damn pot every half-hour in hopes of getting the reagent I need for an item just to end up getting yet another thing of green sludge. Plus, I have so many materials from Coli farming (and I’m a very casual player, mind you) that neither trading to Crim, Swipp, OR Baldwin is putting a dent in them.

It wouldn’t depreciate the value of crafting because you still have the time factor for crafting the actual apparel items AND there’s still no guarantee you’ll get your particular color even if you toss, like, 10 pieces of obsidian in there - you could still get 10 green oozes. But at least if you could craft more than one material item, then you’d be getting your half-hour’s worth.