Guild Wars 2

So, normally the crafting UI is organized so that recipe categories are sorted alphabetically. Sometimes, this is not the case and the circumstances of how it sorts are unknown. Is this an expected behavior (and I’m not getting how it determines when to switch) or a bug?

I don’t have a screenshot for every combo, but sometimes the Ecto Refinement and/or Obsidian Refinement and/or Consumable and/or Inscription categories are the ones that tend to jump to the top of the list.

Yup, I have noticed that a while back but I never knew if it was intended or not. It was used to be worse before but recently it seems to have stopped doing so.

ANet has always been indifferent to sorting.

• Some lists are alpha order.
• Some lists are alpha order, by weight class.
• Some lists are weight order (light→medium→heavy) and then alpha order within that.
• Some lists appear to be sorted by item ID (which, for some reason, is in arbitrary order, not alpha by display name within the set).

I stopped keeping specific track of which were bugged sometime during the GW2 BETAs in 2012.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ANet has always been indifferent to sorting.

• Some lists are alpha order.
• Some lists are alpha order, by weight class.
• Some lists are weight order (light->medium->heavy) and then alpha order within that.
• Some lists appear to be sorted by item ID (which, for some reason, is in arbitrary order, not alpha by display name within the set).

I stopped keeping specific track of which were bugged sometime during the GW2 BETAs in 2012.

Oh, I am not talking about sorting differences between different windows, I’m talking about it changing within the same UI.

For example:
1. It starts out sorted by alphabetical.
2. I close the UI. I talk to the vendor to get some crafting items.
3. I reopen the UI. It is now sorted by Ecto and Obsidian refinement and then the remaining is alphabetical.
4. I close, reopen. Same as #3.
5. I close, reopen. Same as #1.

WTF?

I never noticed mine being alphabetical. It changes all the time, and I don’t recall Ecto or any other Ascended being on top.

No biggie, really.

Blackwood.9072:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ANet has always been indifferent to sorting.

• Some lists are alpha order.
• Some lists are alpha order, by weight class.
• Some lists are weight order (light->medium->heavy) and then alpha order within that.
• Some lists appear to be sorted by item ID (which, for some reason, is in arbitrary order, not alpha by display name within the set).

I stopped keeping specific track of which were bugged sometime during the GW2 BETAs in 2012.

Oh, I am not talking about sorting differences between different windows, I’m talking about it changing within the same UI.

For example:
1. It starts out sorted by alphabetical.
2. I close the UI. I talk to the vendor to get some crafting items.
3. I reopen the UI. It is now sorted by Ecto and Obsidian refinement and then the remaining is alphabetical.
4. I close, reopen. Same as #3.
5. I close, reopen. Same as #1.

WTF?

Right, that happens, too. And I still chalk it up to the same root cause: ANet’s indifferent to sorting order. It might not be mechanically difficult, but it does take some effort.

It has done that since before release I believe. I know it has happened for over 3 years.