Crafting UI needs a little work

I am struggling with the crafting window. Pilgrims Bounty is the first time I have used it in live as I am maxed in all professions across all expansions. I feel frustrated with its current state.

  • The window is far too large. I can’t see behind to click on vendors to easily mass craft. I can’t lay a fire down without closing the window.
  • Closing the window resets where I was. I like the expansion selection button, but I feel the UI should remember where you left off.
  • Minimizing the recipes should stay that way. When I craft, all the minimized sections pop back open.
  • There seems to be a bug where I have all the mats, but the button is still grayed out that I can’t craft it and I have to click off/back on.

I have pulled some forum threads about this issue from other crafters (going pretty far back too) that discuss the dissatisfaction and is some great feedback more than just from me. I am hoping this info could be passed to the crafting UI team to look into this that some players are struggling with the UI. I know Dragonflight is in a week, so we are prob going live with this, but I’m hoping this can be looked at and possibly updated in a future patch. Crafting is a big draw for this expansion, but the crafting UI does not seem to be in a polished state and does not feel very user friendly. Thank you!

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/the-entire-profession-ui-needs-work/1391257
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/new-crafting-ui-is-terrible/1392705
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/the-new-crafting-ui-is-just-bad/1385469
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/anyone-else-hate-the-new-profession-ui/1384933
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/can-we-talk-about-crafting/1388276
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/crafting-ui-updates-needed/1358398
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/crafting-window-needs-much-work/1381694

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You can also have the crafting UI and the guild vault/bank open at the same time, but once you start crafting multiple items in a row the pop-up loot window closes anything but the crafting window. Pure anti-QOL.
I also get the impression that the crafting window is way larger than it needs to be. Maybe the profession tree needs some space to be displayed but anything else doesn’t need that much. In general overlapping 2 tabs should be a modern standard.

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