[jutetrea]

Somewhere in the wish list I "wished" for an interface of:

Everything forgeable as normal
Everything forgeable +1 level as greyed out (current in use artifacts, or some other different color)
In-use artifacts with a big X or something over them

Ideally I'd also like to be able to sort via primary and then secondary path or gem type.

For instance, I may have lots of forging options (such as EA TC) but I only have lots of nature gems. I can choose a nature mage and hit N (as in the f5 spell list) and only see primary path nature items. Then if I know my nature mage has fire magic I can then hit alt-F or something to get only items with primary path nature and secondary path fire.

As an aside, Ballbarian's RanDom has an interesting feature. When selecting magic items for commanders you can select P1 (path 1) and P2 (path 2) and the various levels needed to start weeding out items. I think the purpose was to simulate a specific nation and their forging capabilities, but its still a pretty good resource. Unfortunately its an outside program and requires and alt-tab.

As an example I could be building an LA Marignon themed province and only want to show items possible to make with vanilla LA Marignon. I'd show P1 Fire or P1 astral and if I wanted to drill down further I could show P1 fire and P2 astral.