This has been mentioned before, but it bears mentioning again. Making multiple items, whether high or low level materials, is out of balance with the other writs. Collecting three gems, two flowers, and two or three ingredients is nothing compared to collecting 100s of ore, cloth, and wood, then refining said items, then crafting everything.
This needs to be reduced drastically. One item per writ is in the same spirit as the consumable writs. I don't even do the equipment writs because of the high investment cost involved.
With the proposed changes to 1.6 to encourage writ completion (decreased hireling golds) we also need the added incentive of not having to quest for an hour to get a stack of refined ore, wood, and cloth.