Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
The thing with standing to craft is the benches have to start taking up more space, instead of just being those compact benches on a riser. The cities get cluttered enough with crafters doing their thing. Now imagine dozens of these workbenches all over the place. Kneeling may seem odd or uncomfortable, but it's the best fit for all of them.
It's definitely not a matter of taking up more space. You'd think clutter would take place next to or near appraisers and traders in cities, but this is hardly the case. This might be an issue during a x.2 and x.4 releases when new recipes are released for combat gear, but this is the same game where they've allowed mounts to be ridden in player congested zones in the past, and had to ask players to be respectful and not overlap a summoning bell with their Behemoths and whales.

This is a matter of development time and priorities. Having a basic animation across all crafting classes that really just switches out the tool just saves them time. I can understand that, and have brought it up on many occasions. However, if they wanted to make the crafting classes look and feel less homogenous this is absolutely something they could look into.