Guild Wars 2

Crafting becomes very time-consuming when lists of crafting materials and items grow longer. This is an idea to make crafting smooth and swift.

Let’s say we want to craft a Precise Bronze Dagger. The main screen shows the components we need:

-Precise Green Inscription
-Bronze Dagger Blade
-Bronze Dagger Hilt

We don’t have them, so we need to craft them too. Instead of looking for them in the long list at the left I suggest:

Clicking on one of those components brings up the crafting screen of that component. So in this case we start by clicking on the picture of the Precise Green Inscription. The main screen now tells us we need

-1 Green Wood Dowel
-3 Tiny Claws

In case we don’t have the Green Wood Dowel, we can click on the picture and get the next screen, telling we can craft it with:

-1 Green Wood plank

And if necessary we can click on the picture of the Green Wood Plank to create it with:

-3 Green Wood Logs.

Once we crafted them, the main screen should offer navigation arrows to move back step by step to the next item we need to craft: in this case the Bronze Dagger Blade.

Note that crafting materials are not clickable in this scenario. Although I can imagine that people may want to be directed to the Black Lion Trading Company by clicking on them, so they can buy them.

That’s not a bad idea.

I would suggest one step further though. Instead of having to click through and make all the stuff, why not just make it so that it automatically makes all that stuff for you if you have the mats? For instance, using your example, you need the inscription and the two components. If you have the mats to make them all already, why make each individually when you can one click and do it all in one shot.

I like both these ideas.

I approve of these suggestions. It should be in the suggestions sub-forum though.