for everyone saying that is too much clicking, remember this is the unorthodox method of crafting requiring minimum resources. If you get your essences from chests, end rewards, and the auction house you can get to high levels of crafting with less shards crafted.

I am up to about 35 in each school, only crafted about 250 shards in each school. Also look at lithic he is up to 50/50/50 and has only crafted a little over 870 shards crafted as mentioned above