Guild Wars 2

I just wish that when you hit 500 in a craft, that all the steps to crafting would disappear, that the recipes would lose all the refinement steps (although the refinement would still be available) and simply have the base ingredients listed on the recipe sheet. This would remove all the the steps required to crafting a particular item, all you would need to do is look at the recipe, see that you have the required base mats and click craft.

For example Bowl of Curry Butternut Squash Soup;
1 Coconut
1 Bowl of Herbed Vegetable Stock
1 Butternut Squash
1 Jar of Red Curry Paste

But, that is actually
1 Coconut
1 Butternut Squash
1 Sage Leaf
1 Rosemary Sprig
1 Bay Leaf
1 Thyme Leaf
2 Carrots
3 Onions
1 Jug of Water
1 Celery Stalk
1 Head of Garlic
1 Ginger Root
1 Chili Pepper
1 Lime
1 Cayenne Pepper
1 Lemongrass

I do agree that it would be a nice QoL improvement if you could craft high level dishes directly without needing to craft the intermediate ingredients first.

How about a tab system? Will work for most crafts, and possibly for cooking.

Tier/Tab 1: Refinement (ore to ingots, wood to planks).
Tier/Tab 2: Dowels/insignia etc
Tier/Tab 3: Base parts (blades, hilts, leather soles etc)
Tier/Tab 4: Final items.

When discovering you need to build the lower tier stuff. Once a recipe is known you can craft directly from Tab 4.

Adding a level band to all stages to aid in making kit for sale/alts would also be very useful. Ie is it copper, iron or steel for a lvl 15 weapon?

Would be nice. If you have all you need to make a certain armorpiece, dish, whatever, it would be so much easier to craft. Not to mention all the times I’ve made the wrong recipe..

The act of crafting is indeed horribly tedious: possibly the worst designed part of the game. This would help a bit:

One-click crafting:

• You click on the item and automatically your item is crafted (along with all necessary intermediates, of course).

Crafting food is the worst at high levels. Even at max level I only craft low level foods because of the time it takes. I could do a full event and be making money by the time it takes to craft the higest level pizza.

One would think at such a high level you might get a short cut or at least a su chief to help :-)

Lord Kuru.3685:

The act of crafting is indeed horribly tedious: possibly the worst designed part of the game. This would help a bit:

One-click crafting:

• You click on the item and automatically your item is crafted (along with all necessary intermediates, of course).

This. This is exactly what I meant LK, we need this. Even if it included the intermediate things in the process, but was still one click craft, I would be very happy.

Angelica Dream.7103:

Crafting food is the worst at high levels. Even at max level I only craft low level foods because of the time it takes. I could do a full event and be making money by the time it takes to craft the higest level pizza…

Yeah mate, the pizza is crazy to craft, to make top tier, you need to make like half a dozen other things 1st! This is just madness when you want to craft like 50 or more for your WvW toons.