Guild Wars 2

I posted this as a reply in another thread, but I feel it bears repeating:

Correct me if I am wrong, but most people do their crafting for 1 of 2 reasons: Either they need to replace a specific peice of armor (i.e. "my character’s healm is so 10 levels ago…) or they are trying to do as much discovery as possible to level their crafting skills.

The later is particularilly annoying as it requires one to repeatedly scroll between 4 different sub-menus (refinement, crafting components, insignia, and the individual armor pieces’ section) just to determine whether one has the necessary components and avoid duplications. And, of course, since they are all arranged alphabetically, this usually means a lot of unneccessary back & forth.

My solution is to place the Refinement section at the very top of the production menu, and then get rid of the “Crafting Components” sub-section all together. Instead, place these components with the catagory that they belong to.

i.e.: instead of it looking like this:

Crafting Components
Cotton Coat Lining
Cotton Coat Panel
Cotton Helm Lining
Cotton Helm Pannel
Cotton etc…. (and yes, have you noticed that it doesn’t always go in the same
order [lining, panel, lining, panel]? More than once I have crafted the wrong component because I wasn’t paying close enough attention..)
Wool Coat Lining
Wool Coat Panel
Wool etc…

I think it SHOULD look like this:

Coats
Ravaging Acolyte Coat
Vigorous Acolyte Coat
etc…
Cotton Coat Lining
Cotton Coat Panel
Hearty Student Coat
Strong Student Coat
Wool Coat Lining etc
Wool Coat Panel
etc…

If they reorganized it like that, then we wouldn’t waste so much time scrolling through all the lists and we could we could close all of the sub-menus that we weren’t using at that time.

As a final note, I also hope the GMs will enlarge the left-hand section of the production menu. Some of the recipies have super-long names [i.e. Rejuvinating Embroidered Wool Insignia (Master)], that get cut-off mid sentence, so you can’t tell whether you have the necessary reagents un till you to click on them individually.