The reason for the game not sorting by type does have its reasons:
- items are not categorised by types as they are in other games. Tooltips say what items do, loot has rarities and stats, but other than that, an item is an item.
An item is an item?
In essence players can 'use' every item in several ways - even loot.
So?
- categorisation by type also inherently reveals too much about the usefulness of certain items.
Yeah? How so?
Just like a Quest Item tab would destroy much of the obscurity in the game and automatically 'solves' puzzles in the game,
Whaaat?
How would it "automatically solve puzzles" in the game - exactly?
You must know because youre claiming it so assuredly.
categories would do the same for several other aspects of the game such as crafting.
You are supposed to try this and find it out yourself, or use the crafting manuals to learn more.
There is already a sort of category for crafting items, among many others and that reveals absolutely nothing about any specific crafting combination.
Sorting by type - does not mean sorting by category, by the way. It means "sort my inventory so all weapons, armors, arrows, potions, spells, etc, etc are sorted in groups together.
Since crafting uses almost all items in the game it would be pretty much impossible to sort them all into one single category and glean any information from it.
