Guild Wars 2

Or maybe it does streamline things in a non user-friendly way and I just don’t see it. I rarely if ever had trouble making exactly the number of items I wanted with just a couple clicks (no typing, no hitting enter) and now it is seemingly impossible. I really didn’t screw up the quantity before so I don’t see the need for this “safety measure” of disabling click-for-quantity. The only time I did slip up was hitting “craft all” after clicking a few quantities but that issue is still the same as before.

The most aggravating part of this isn’t just the extra steps:

Old way:
1) click item
2) click “right arrow” for 2
3) click craft

New way:
1) click item
2) click “quantity field”
3) move hand to numpad, find “2 key”, press it
4) press enter
5) click craft

It’s that most of my quantities are 2 or 3 at a time (make 2-3 insignias, make 2-3 of each crafting material, discover recipes, repeat), so 90% of my crafting routine just became more tedious without any quality of life improvement to speak of.

Is the change a result of player feedback or was it just arbitrary? Can I at least have the option of deciding which is “right for me?” I want the old way back, at least the option to use it if most just don’t care, or actually prefer the extra steps.

The other option is if you click the up/down arrow next to the value field and hold it you can move your mouse up or down to change the value. I agree though and personally dislike this change. It really isn’t that big of an issue but for me this is a backwards step in the quality of life department and is less user friendly in my eyes.

There’s already been plenty of posts, and the reason the UI was changed in the first place seems to be quite unclear. The only reason I’ve seen is that previously there was a limit of 999 crafts in the input, and now it’s been increased. If true (since a player mentioned it), it’s still a weak reason for such a drastic change since practically no one would have been affected by such a limit.

Most people will agree with you (including myself) that the new UI is not an improvement, especially when trying to craft low quantities of items. We’ve been hoping the devs will revert to the old system which most if not all of us had little to no problems with. By now they’ve seen these threads, so they know of the issue

*pokes a dev*
I’d be ecstatic if the old UI is included in the Nov 15th patch

Litmus.3807:

The other option is if you click the up/down arrow next to the value field and hold it you can move your mouse up or down to change the value. I agree though and personally dislike this change. It really isn’t that big of an issue but for me this is a backwards step in the quality of life department and is less user friendly in my eyes.

Why does someone with 4 crafts mastered and who (thought they) read every update need to find out about this functionality change this way, by “word of mouth”? I had to try this to see if it actually worked and it does, so I will be using this method instead of the one I just described above until such time as another option is offered. Hundreds if not thousands of crafters are probably still in the dark about it, though, which just adds to the frustration.