I think the crafting UI could use some enhancements. First of all, whenever I open the crafting station, it seems like my recipes are sometimes sorted in random order. Regardless, the list is so long at 400-500 it’s still hard to find anything. Yes there is the search field, and the filters, but if you’re looking up several different items, it can be tedious to continually change the filters or redo your search to find what you need.
Plus when I bring up a recipe and see I need to craft one of the ingredients, all I can do from that page is right click and buy more from the TP. But why do that if I can make it? But I still have to find it in my list.
It would be nice if I could right click on an ingredient and jump to it on my list. But I think I have an even better idea.
When you click on a recipe, it would be great if they had an ingredient tree, so ingredients had their ingredients listed as well. That way you can see EVERYTHING you need, if you want to craft something beginning to end. And it would be great if you could craft all the ingredients and sub ingredients (if you have the mats) from that tree interface, instead of having to navigate to each and every one.
This would be especially helpful in cooking, as those high level recipes can be quite elaborate (not just two piece and an inscription/insignia). But even the complex recipes for Ascended gear would benefit too. I do like the crafting system, but the UI needs a bit of work.
Also, it would be nice that once you max a crafting profession, the interface would use something other than light grey for your recipes. It’s fine for leveling, but when they’re all grey it is just blah. Maybe color based on their rarity, or tier.