Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
I craft a fair bit, and I must do it much differently since I , well... to be honest, I "plan ahead" I make a number of the finished materials ahead of time so the raw materials are not taking up inventory space anywhere. Then I just take out what I need for whatever items I intend to craft. this "making on the fly" concept seems like a huge waste of time and effort.
You must not be crafting that much if you haven’t run into this issue before. If you’re trying to craft one of everything for every class for some of the achievements, the current system is a huge annoyance. Interestingly, once you have entered the fishing pose at a fishing hole you can use Cordials and other consumables, but you cannot do this once you start crafting. This was a big annoyance during things like the Ishgard ranking seasons; having to exit the crafting menu to reapply food / syrup was frustrating, to say the least. However, even that pales in comparison to the annoyance of being unable to switch crafting classes and having to close out of the crafting window and then reopen it and reselect whatever items you wanted to create.