Crafting Log - Keep track of specific recipes & ingredients /Works List/Shopping List

[Altanas]

Reason for Suggestion

1. Keeping track of particular items I want to craft is cumbersome with the long lists in the crafting logs.

2. If i want to dedicate to particular items, say potions of certain varieties, I have to search entire list of possible crafts.

3. If I want to create a set of gear that uses multiple crafts (eg boots from leather, body from weaver, etc) I want a "shopping list". I don't want to constantly memorise where the item is in the entire recipe lists


Proposal:

1. Add a side window to crafting interface.
2. Allow us to Drag and Drop items into the interface.
3. When dropped into the new side window, a list of materials starts to be displayed at the bottom. As more items are dragged over, the materials list updates.

Let us save our new side window as to do/work list/shopping lists. That way I can see at a glance:
a) what relevant gear I am thinking of crafting
b) totals of each material that are needed.


Some of us might just make potions, others ethers, everyone will have their niche. Not everyone wants to craft everything. Its annoying having to trawl through the entire recipe list of everything I have learned when I am just after specific things.

With my to do/work list/shopping list saved, it makes it easier to cross reference with the market board, or when I am out hunting or gathering to keep track of how many items I need before going back to town.

At the moment I have to resort to third party websites and Notepad for this. But I'd rather do it ingame. With drag and drop and auto-completing material shopping list it makes it so much easier (i.e. no typing involved!)

[Tekaru]

sounds pretty cool. sort of like a quest tracker but one you build yourself.

I like the crafting interface in Rift, as it shows what items are required to build stuff - but then you can click on those items and see what you need for them. Like if you were trying to make a potion, it would say Quicksliver and Muddy Water. But then you could click on "Quicksilver" or "Muddy Water" and it would jump automatically to the requirements to make them, instead of having to look them up.