suggestions for crafting/workshop improvements

There are a lot of suggestions here. Most of them are simple changes. I have ideas for making crafting more interesting, but for now I will stick to these simple things which I can see no reason the devs wouldn't do just to improve their own product.

(suggestions are in no particular order besides the order I thought of them and wrote them down)

1. -crafting window navagation- Could the game "remember" what window you are on for each char? Currently it does for the account, but even that is bugged because it shows an error message saying there are no crafting tasks that fit that description on the profession window you were last on. I.e. I was last on armorsmithing and now it says there are no possible armorsmithing tasks. To see my armorsmithing tasks, I have to move to jewelcrafting or something, then back to armorsmithing, then to the level task I want.

I would say there should be 2 stored pieces of information. 1. whatever profession you were on last (and that should include whatever artisan/tool was selected last) and 2. what level tasks you were looking at. (currently, if you are looking at armorsmithing 60-70 and navigate to jewelcrafting, it shows you jewelcrafting 1-10. Normally, if you are working on making a level 60-70 item it will require level 60-70 materials so if I go to jewelcrafting to make, say, a gold ingot I need for another profession's task, this change would make me go right to the set of 60-70 tasks I am likely to want.

2. Could the quantity of an item you have be shown in its task setting screen. i.e. if i want to make a black opal, I would like to see the number of them I already have without navigating to another task that uses them. In the case of a black opal, it is easy enough to look at "black opal choker" which is beside it. It is not always that easy. I see no good reason why it shouldn't be easier. This should also apply to the gathering screen. There this would be a big deal because it would save you from walking across the room to the crafting table.

3. Could "current orders" be modified to show the blend of ingredients. i.e. if I am running low on drake leather +1 and I want to allocate a 2nd artisan to the same task, I would like to see the current crafter's blend without canceling his task and making the appropriate blend to both tasks. If the current crafter is using all drake leather +1 I might want to cancel him so he doesn't abruptly stop working. If he is using all common drake leather I might make the 2nd crafter use 2 common and 1 +1.

4. gold is not refunded when a task is cancelled. This could be a deliberate design, but it causes me to lose gold when I click the "finish now" with morale button then stop the task so I can change to a different task.

5. could morale orders be made the same way time orders are made? i.e. do 10 orders at once or as many as possible rather than clicking craft and accepting the item 10 times. I am not trying to trick you. I want this for crafting gold with morale or leveling low level stuff or crafting items I intend to sell for commission. Currently, I hardly ever use my morale because it takes MY time. If you did this I wouldn't care about the gold loss in #4.

6. please allow crafting materials and tools to be protected in inventory. Most importantly, I don't want to accidentally sell my needed tools for commission on accident. But I could also accidentally sell my black ink I need for making artificing stuff or potions or supplements. Then if I try to use those items for a crafting task I should get a warning that they are protected so I don't use something I am saving for masterwork or something.

7. can the crafting window be made to be resizable? Sometimes I want to have another window open and viewable at the same time. Sometimes I just want to line it up so that 2 buttons from different windows are near one another or in the same place (i.e. the button to accept an item after I have crafted it with morale)

8. SORTING. I asked for this a long time ago. Can there be a sorting algorithm for crafting materials and tools? Sort does something now. It just makes a big mess. What I want is options. I.e. I want to sort by material. All of the wood in one place, ascending or decending in quality. all of the ore in one place, ingots, stone, raw gems etc. Then I would also like to be able to make a different row or column for each type of material. I would like sinews separated from horns, but they could share the same row or column. It should also allow you to choose where you want the open space. i.e. top, bottom, left, right, or wrap. Wrap would put the open space between groups of items, i.e. (3x empty space) all leather (3x empty space) all produce (berries, leaves) (3x empty space) etc. I would also like to be able to set certain items/slots to not be sorted. i.e. something I craft to sell I might want to be at the top, apart from the sorted materials. If I move all of those items to the AH, I want them to appear again in that same slot so I know where they are without looking.

9. PROFESSION STOCK. I would like to be able to see the stock (sorted) of all items used by a profession in the professin screen. I.e. if I am working on jewelcrafting, I would like to see all jewelcrafting materials or materials used by jewelcrafting in the jewelcrafting profession screen. I would also like to be able to manipulate those items from the jewelcrafting screen. (for instance dragging oak lumber to the AH screen or the mailbox) The mailbox would need to be able to be activated from the profession's screen (VIP summoned mailbox) to be usable at the same time as the prof screen.

10. MORE CRAFTING MATERIALS INVENTORY. There simply isn't room for everything. MW stuff, Chult stuff, 2 kinds of every kind of Workshop stuff, the old materials that events keep giving us, event crafting stuff, Black Ice stuff, weapon restoration stuff. It doesn't all fit. Even if you had 1 space for every possible item there are times when you need multiple stacks of certain things. I am currently getting around this problem by moving all of some things to another character. Lots of times I don't even know what stuff is but I am afraid to get rid of it or don't know how to get rid of it.

11. Could we view professions tasks by character class. I.e. I want to see all usable items for CW or all items for OP. Sorted by level of course, player level, not crafting level. And last I checked there were no items for certain levels of certain classes. i.e. there might not be a level 32 set of pants for GF. (this is an issue I rant into months ago, perhaps it is fixed now or maybe I was looking in the wrong place)

12. This last suggestion is not really crafting, but it effects crafting. When I use inventory and am on the crafting tab, i might see the materials or I might see the toolbox. The problem is, it is bizarre. I feel like when I click the crafting tab it knows which one I want selected (toolbox or materials) and navigates to the other. Why can't it just be on whichever it was on last? (that isn't how it is). Or better yet, why not just give inventory a tab for toolbox AND materials. Each one could have their own tab! (sorry, but the current interface frustrates me)