Guild Wars 2

This is particularly called for with the “chef” crafting, but it seems to be the case for all of them. You need to craft all these intermediate parts, but there’s no real additional storage for them. Since they can often involve rather expensive initial components — especially later on — it seems ridiculous that there is no storage for them and you have to sell them and buy them back later.

Each crafting discipline should have 20-30 spaces for items only made/used by that craft profession. Perhaps access to this is only enabled at the specific crafting station as a part of that bank setup, and only the intermediate items for that specific profession /u(stuff that can’t be directly used or applied) could be stored there.

Whether it should be associated only with that character or with the entire account is up to you (i.e., if I change ‘x’ to an artificer from a tailor, and then train ‘y’ as a tailor… does ‘y’ have access to things ‘x’ created as a tailor? or does ‘x’ have to move stuff into the general bank first, THEN put it into the crafter-pro storage…?)

This is woefully, desperately needed for the chef — his profession has a HUGE array of intermediate creations — creams, concoctions, and for forth — that are needed to make something as you advance… yet they use ingredients, like eggs and such — that are expensive as hell to buy.

I’ve crafted chef on 4 characters with two bank tabs in addition to having 400 for every other profession. You can do it too.

I agree that crafting should have separate storage for portions and parts of multi-part patterns and recipes.
If you are making armor, you have the enhancements as well as all of the item parts for each piece that you are crafting, along with all of the materials needed to craft. The bank has slots for the basic materials, but not for all of the individual parts for jewellery, clothing, cooking, weaponry, tailoring, etc.
For jewellery, you need your ingots, your bands, your chains, your settings, your filigrees, your hooks and all of the special materials from each metal used that will make each piece an individual piece with specific stats. Cooking is, as was pointed out, cumbersome. You either fill up your bank that is shared by alts who have their own crafting storage needs, or have your bags stuffed to the point that you have trouble getting loot if you are out questing or doing instanced activity with multiple rewards, as in Black Citadel’s “Protect the Weapons Parts” quest with waves of attackers dropping a lot of loot to fill your bags.
You can sell the junk, but first, you have to be able to hold it and the good drops, because you don’t have time to sort it all out during the fighting.
Newer players cannot afford 10-slot or larger bags immediately, and even those will not adequately provide enough storage if you are heavily into crafting, as many are.
Casual crafters don’t seem to last very long. Those of us who are invested in it do need more storage.
Since some of us do two crafts, perhaps each craft that you do could have its own storage facility at that specific crafting station that could be opened through a Craft Representative like a bank NPC for a 50-60 slot bank for crafted ingredients or parts that are necessary to create the actual item. If only crafting-related items, raw materials, parts of patterns or recipes, or completed items (such as parts of an armor set that will, when worn together, make a complete Armor) were stored, that would free up Adventure Bag Space, which is needed if you killing large numbers of mobs and your bag space has been reduced to the point that you have to throw out items instead of selling them for cash in order to make room for other items.

Raw materials stored in the regular bank would be those that alts could sell for cash, or use to start their own crafting.
There are no bank slots available for each individual part of an amulet, a sword, or a helm, or a complex recipe.
That means bag space is uncomfortably filled.

So…I agree that there needs to be more storage space for crafting that is allocated exclusively for crafting items that must be made before you can put together the completed item.

I made it through my crafts without like everybody else, and did so back when you had to place all the intermediates back into your inventory to use them -_- That change made it a lot easier for me, but yes, more space would be helpful. It is sort of weird that that you can store wood and wood planks in your storage, but not dowels.

With Chef there is the additional problem that the recipe are not as straight forward, so for the longest time I have held on to veggie pizzas and whatever else, knowing that there were other recipes in there but never finding them. I eventually resorted to gw2db/wiki and also gave most of the food away. I would have preferred to be able to solve these myself in-game, but that would have required more storage space for intermediates that I didn’t have.

I agree. I’m currently keeping 117 cooking ingredients in my regular bank space (mostly so that I don’t miss any discoverable recipes).

This is ridiculous. We need dedicated storage space for them.