So get to master enchanting you need to get 50 anima pieces and complete the 43 dungeon, to complete the quest.
The problem is that 50 anima pieces is just too obscene an amount.
As far as I know, currently, the only way to get anima pieces is through Anima tokens. You get anima tokens by successfully taming a rare attempt (although some people have said they got them when failing. I haven't yet, at 3 successes and 7 failures). What a rare tame is: every time you tame something there is a chance the mini-game will be harder. The slider moves quicker, the green bar is smaller, and you need more successes to tame it. This can result in a level 10 green pet/mount, or it can be blue, or it can be purple.
Currently (from my findings) it appears elite mobs have a chance of 1 rare tame out of 10, everything else is about 1 out of 100.
Here's the problem (and these are based on my averages).
On elites I do find the 1 out of 10 to be accurate. From Anima tokens I also average two anima pieces per 10 tokens (using the 11 rewards when using 10 tokens, so 18% of anima token rewards will be anima pieces).
Provided you succeeded every single rare tame attempt, to get 50 anima pieces (with my averages), I would need to tame 2500 elite mobs.
2500 elite tame attempts, yields 250 rare tame attempts, which yields 250 anima tokens, which yields 50 anima pieces. And that is provided you do not fail a single attempt.
I actually happen to be terrible at the rare tame attempts, so it's even worse for me. I have passed 3 attempts and failed at 7. So really, I only have a 33% success rate. So for my own terrible skill at the mini-game, I will personally need to do 7500 tame attempts, yielding 247.5 SUCCESSFUL tame attempts (at my skill level) to get 50 pieces (granted I have six currently).
There are very few elites in this game that are tameable. They are also camped non-stop. Most have a minute or two respawn timer. Let's say you are an absolute god and playing by yourself on an empty server, so you are able to camp a spawn point (say mammoths) on both channels. Yielding two tames a minute. That is 1250 minutes just spent taming, 20.83 hours. For one quest. Under perfect conditions with no competition.
Obviously to supplement this I have been using the marketplace. But there are never any posted. When they are, they sell immediately. When they are up for bid, I am outbid every time within 10 seconds (I have tried bidding three different times). And because all other enchanters are now camping the marketplace, the cost of everything is rising, approaching about a gold per anima piece.
The other kick in the pants is that, having craft 2800 level 45 or below scrolls, you are not getting any points in your crafting skill because advancement is locked. With the amount you crafted you probably would have ranked again.
Can this requirement please be lowered?
Tl:DR
Only get anima pieces from anima tokens which you only get from rare tame attempts.
Elite mobs average 1 rare tame attempt out of every 10 taming scrolls used.
Using 10 anima tokens at a time yields 11 anima rewards, which on my averages nets me two anima pieces (18%).
Two anima pieces from every 11 anima rewards from 100 tame attempts on elite mobs.
Under perfect conditions (no elite competition, camping both channels, passing every rare tame attempt) with my average findings you are looking at 2500 taming attempts (2500 taming scrolls), at 2 per minute totaling 1250 minutes or 20.83 hours.
Of just taming. For one quest. With no further advancement in the enchanting skill until quest is completed.
Further edit:
Apparently to get to master smithing all they have to do is the dungeon, no further requirements.
Also, at my 33% success rate I'd be looking at 60 hours of taming. At that rate it's probably just faster for me to level a bunch of alts to 33 for the 10 free anima tokens.