After the updates...crafting a weapon is no longer easy takes...lots of time to collect materials....and just one fail in crafting you need to collect every material over and over again... or maybe I'm the only one feel irritated about that update..

Nosla,

So as many you dislike parts of the new patch.

About a year ago the forge was almost exactly like this, you even had to sacrifice armor to get epic armor, the chance from then are the same as now. Players had complains about it, Panzar changed it to a time based system, still players complain about the time based system, Panzar Studio evaluated bought system and found the first crafting system is to be the best system for Panzar.
The decision has been made and it will stay like this until Panzar Studio doesn't get the correct response form the players.

Resources are higher but its a sum now of lvl1 and lvl2 resources because they removed the lvl 2 resources.

This is still just a game and trying to get to the top as fast as you can gives you irritations. So play the game and have fun with your friends.