Feedback on the new search navigation for crafting

[ChameleonMS]

As for returning back to the previous recipe, you can work around this by performing the following steps:

1. Open the crafting window
2. Select the item you want to craft
3. Select the material you want to search the recipe for
4. Hit the escape key to close the window
5. Re-open the crafting window

Unfortunately this does not consistently work with a game pad (PS4 player here). I have frequently run in to this problem when the component I need is on a different crafting class.
I back out of the crafting screen, change my class. Do the component craft.
Return to previous crafting class, the original recipe I was looking is no longer remembered. The group (say 51-55) is still selected but the index marker is returned to the top of this list.

[FunkyBunch]

We'll consider both of these suggestions..

As for returning back to the previous recipe, you can work around this by performing the following steps:

1. Open the crafting window
2. Select the item you want to craft
3. Select the material you want to search the recipe for
4. Hit the escape key to close the window
5. Re-open the crafting window

Thanks for the feedback!

But please a search for what uses an item would be awesome too! I need to clear out my inventory...

[Sylkis]

But please a search for what uses an item would be awesome too! I need to clear out my inventory...

Best to stick with a website for that one

[LineageRazor]

Best to stick with a website for that one

At the moment, it is best, yes. But it SHOULDN'T be the best option we have. It would be much better if it were available in-game. When my retainer brings me back an ADS plating, it would be nice to have a convenient resource in-game that will tell me how to use it.

Of course, the can of worms this opens is that, for the first time, recipes from multiple crafts will be displayed in the same window. In the ADS Plating example, Goldsmith and Armorer both have recipes that use it, so this hypothetical search function should be able to display both. This is unprecedented, and I don't know how much trouble such a thing would cause the developers...

[whiskeybravo]

Personally I think search by crafting method also needs to sit under search for item in the right click menu in the crafting log.

Yes, +1.

I don't need to know the recipe to make Iron Ore. I can't anyways. Search for item needs to be first on the list.

[Niwashi]

Of course, the can of worms this opens is that, for the first time, recipes from multiple crafts will be displayed in the same window. In the ADS Plating example, Goldsmith and Armorer both have recipes that use it, so this hypothetical search function should be able to display both. This is unprecedented, and I don't know how much trouble such a thing would cause the developers...

The "Recipe Search" and "Search for item by Crafting Method" features can already do this. If you look up the recipe for making an Iron Ingot, for instance, it will show you both the level 13 Armourer recipe for making it and also the level 16 Blacksmith recipe for making it.

[LineageRazor]

The "Recipe Search" and "Search for item by Crafting Method" features can already do this. If you look up the recipe for making an Iron Ingot, for instance, it will show you both the level 13 Armourer recipe for making it and also the level 16 Blacksmith recipe for making it.

Ah, that's right. So it's not unprecedented at all. I don't see any reason why this would be difficult for developers to do, then; it basically amounts to a simple search, unless their recipes have been constructed in a needlessly convoluted way...

foreach (recipe in full_list_of_recipes)
{
    var found_ingredient = false
    foreach (ingredient in recipe.ingredient_list)
    {
         if (ingredient equals search_ingredient)
         {
             found_ingredient = true
             breakloop
         }
    }
    if (found_ingredient equals true)
    {
        display_list.add(recipe)
    }
}

[Sida]

As for the name "search by crafting method", I think it mght also be a translation "feature". Besides it's yet slightly misleading as if you use it for a thing that's harvested in some way, it opens the gathering log instead, which is not exactly a crafting method (not recipe either, I admit). I would maybe suggest "search by Source" which is not entirely accurate but closer there and nicely compact.

[Niwashi]

As for the name "search by crafting method", I think it mght also be a translation "feature". Besides it's yet slightly misleading as if you use it for a thing that's harvested in some way, it opens the gathering log instead, which is not exactly a crafting method (not recipe either, I admit). I would maybe suggest "search by Source" which is not entirely accurate but closer there and nicely compact.

I agree that "Search for Source" would be better if they are indeed linked like that so the same command opens either crafting or gathering log. But un-linking them might be a better solution. Have "Search for Item" followed by "Search for Recipe" on crafted items and "Search for Item" followed by "Search for Harvesting Node" on gathered items.

I also dislike the wording because the prepositions used are wrong. We aren't searching for an item by its crafting method. We're searching for its crafting (or gathering) method. The result of the search is a recipe or harvesting node location, not the item itself. So, at the very least, they should change the wording from "Search for Item by Crafting Method" to "Search for Crafting Method". The "for item" part is just confusing and inaccurate.

[Ninjah2r]

Can you guys also fix the LTW 50-60 + master (2) crafting log?

I just tried making a friend dhalmel skin gathering gear for lvl 55. So the boots are in master (2) I think, headpiece in 55-60. and gloves and body in master (2) too? I don't even know anymore, it's THAT confusing lol. I really want to know which genius there thought 'yeah well, let's shatter these items over 2-3 categories in the log'.

Please fix this square enix, since everytime I get annoyed by it ,I will kill a lala