Please speed this up. This hasn't changed since it started. Make it a quest, make it linked to Mastery in a way that actually speeds it up a swell as amount processed in a batch; speed up the batch time.

Lot of workers, lot of gathering equals a lot to process. 

I stick in a batch and go do house chores or watch a TV show or something. This is utterly dire. Even with the Pay To Win costume so that can process directly from storage