One of the things I really dislike about the new crafting:
It adds to the complexity of materials management.
Throw in some alts and collecting the elementals needed for a recipe can easily become an exercise of straining your memory (which character still had some of that air stuff??) and a relogging orgy.
To some degree that was true in previous expansions, but the new iteration on crafting makes this so much worse, with plenty of materials overlap between professions.
Proposed Solution:
- Create a central material storage for all your characters of the same faction on the same realm.
- Rather than more storage slots, it supports an infinite-sized stack for each non-soulbound crafting material. You can retrieve regular stacks into your bags.
- Access to this storage for crafting is anywhere in a capital and in range of any crafting station.
With this we could spend less time managing materials and more time enjoying the game 