Vanilla game? Probably not. When you a reconstructing, you can do that. But crafting, no, I don't think so.

But good news!

Dolgubon's Lazy Set Crafter addon does not only that, but it allows you to auto craft the whole set in exactly the quality, weight, traits and enchants as you want with one click.

Use the UI to make a list of what you want crafted, then simply just interact with the crafting tables and the addon does the rest.

That friction, where you need to improve it 5 times, was actually a large part of the reason behind set crafter. (The other major part was those awful side scrollers in the crafting screen)
The first time I automatically improved a piece of gear from white all the way to purple is still one of the most satisfying coding moments I've ever had.

Eliahnus wrote: »

4 clicks too much effort ??

It’d be a bit of a different situation if it only took 4 clicks per set rather than per piece. OP mentioned a 5-piece set specifically, and 4 x 5 certainly isn’t still 4.

Especially at scale, it’s not about effort so much as time. I am happy to keep clicking buttons, as long as I am accomplishing something worth that time. I do not want to click buttons unnecessarily when I can be efficient about it instead. Interacting with content such as PvE and PvP is a good use of my button presses. Upgrading each item four times is not when we have the option to do it faster and with fewer interactions. The outcome of the upgrades is the same and guaranteed either way, unlike actual interactions with content.

ZOS seems to understand and appreciate this, since they implemented multi-refining. If they had preferred us to deal with the inefficiency, they would have left that bit of QoL to add-ons.