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Over the past week, I've been playing quite happily, gleefully donating all 'junk' loot to my pet and manually picking up anything left behind that looked useful. Having played earlier in the summer, I must admit I knew what to expect with picking up the hot dog ingredients. My modus operandi for this event has basically been pick them up and deal with them later, when I feel like getting a hot dog cart or two... or 6 before the event ends.

Well... after crafting 130+ fully loaded hot dogs, each by hand (all at once - what can I say, I have masochistic tendencies), I've come to the conclusion that one of the best features I miss the most from WoW is the "Craft All" button. I understand that while it's not that time consuming, it is very monotonous. I realized that I should have been tackling them a little at a time, making the fully loaded hot dogs at the end of each day, but like they say, hindsight is 20/20, and I'd decided to embrace that oldest and noblest tradition of procrastination.

I have no qualms with gathering the ingredients individually, as it adds some flavor to the event - after all, what's a hot dog without the ketchup and mustard, but there must be a better way to combine them than one at a time! Thus, I suggest implementing a "craft all" option, or at least allowing them to be crafted in units of 5 or 10 in addition to the one at a time method; maybe a "craft 5" or "craft 10" button.

So far, I've only played enough for this to be the only event that requires collecting individual ingredients and combining them into one 'currency,' but if any other events that incorporate this concept are implemented, crafting each by hand can easily become dull and can take away from the overall enjoyment of the event, as it risks becoming an 'ugh, now I have to go and stand in front of Pym for 15+ minutes making hot dogs' event (longer if I've misplaced my ketchup stash). Personally, I think that implementing a better way to craft such items in bulk would allow for more events to include these elements while not having them be annoying, or needing to be another simple 'collect x number of items for a prize' type of deal. Overall, it could allow for adding more fun and flavor to events, while also making a significant quality of life improvement for players.

I could nitpick further - the only guy I can think of who would probably use an entire bottle of ketchup, mustard, and an entire jar of relish for one hot dog is Deadpool. But honestly, I think the individual crafting ideology needs to go for these types of events to be successful, and not become aggravating. I realize I don't have to participate in the event, but I enjoy exchanging the easily gotten carts (uniques) for relics or other uniques, which are somewhat harder to come by, and the carts are handy in and of themselves I'm sure.

Thoughts?