SE: Please consider changing the crafting menu

[Fland]

The one's that preventing you from changing class is going into crafting position, not the menu itself. If you just open the menu, you can change class without closing it.
It's just that when you go into crafting position, then start your craft, you'd still be in crafting position after you finish your craft and the menu pop back on. You need to close the menu to get out of crafting position.
Perhaps SE could make it so that our character automatically get out of crafting position after finishing a craft and the menu pop back on. That way you don't have to close the menu to change to a different crafting class.

[Jojoya]

The one's that preventing you from changing class is going into crafting position, not the menu itself. If you just open the menu, you can change class without closing it.
It's just that when you go into crafting position, then start your craft, you'd still be in crafting position after you finish your craft and the menu pop back on. You need to close the menu to get out of crafting position.
Perhaps SE could make it so that our character automatically get out of crafting position after finishing a craft and the menu pop back on. That way you don't have to close the menu to change to a different crafting class.

But then we'd have people complaining about the constant sit down/stand up animations as we finish a craft and start a new one when repeat crafting, especially when that would lead to lost use time on expensive food/syrup. I get the subsequent consecutive crafts of an item started much faster than the first craft because my character doesn't have to repeat the sitting animation or lose time with a standing up animation.

I imagine this is going to be one of those areas where the community won't be able to agree which way it should be. SE has to decide whether the animation lock should be set to favor the frequent crafter or the occasional crafter.

As a frequent crafter, I'm not going to be in favor of a change. I'm losing a lot less time by having to go through the sitting/standing animations maybe 2-3 times an hour at most compared to what I would lose if my character was doing it every 30 seconds for 3 hours straight.

[ZedxKayn]

The one's that preventing you from changing class is going into crafting position, not the menu itself. If you just open the menu, you can change class without closing it.
It's just that when you go into crafting position, then start your craft, you'd still be in crafting position after you finish your craft and the menu pop back on. You need to close the menu to get out of crafting position.
Perhaps SE could make it so that our character automatically get out of crafting position after finishing a craft and the menu pop back on. That way you don't have to close the menu to change to a different crafting class.

I don't see how the crafting position could be a problem, is it a question of tools? Because there is a change between off and main hand of the same job that could work as naturally when switching jobs.

[Ronduwil]

The one's that preventing you from changing class is going into crafting position, not the menu itself. If you just open the menu, you can change class without closing it.

I'm not sure what your point is. The OP was pretty clear about the issue. Regardless of whether you say "going into the crafting position" or "once you've started crafting" (which are effectively the same thing), the point is that it's clunky and annoying that you have to close the menu to switch jobs:

The issue is that once you've started crafting an item as one class, you cannot switch classes unless you close out of the crafting window. This system is extremely clunky and annoying to use, especially given the sheer number of items in this game that require pre-mats that must be crafted by a different class.

You're effectively saying, "that's not the problem," and then repeating the problem the OP called out before asking for the same thing that the OP asked for:

It would be awesome if players could switch between crafting classes without having to exit out of the crafting menu each and every time.

I think that we can all agree that we wouldn't be missing anything by eliminating the need to repeatedly stand and squat when trying to craft complex items.

[meteor329]

The one's that preventing you from changing class is going into crafting position, not the menu itself. If you just open the menu, you can change class without closing it.
It's just that when you go into crafting position, then start your craft, you'd still be in crafting position after you finish your craft and the menu pop back on. You need to close the menu to get out of crafting position.
Perhaps SE could make it so that our character automatically get out of crafting position after finishing a craft and the menu pop back on. That way you don't have to close the menu to change to a different crafting class.

They could also add an action like Fisher's "Quit" to all crafting classes.