Guild Wars 2

Is this really intended or necessary? The Gossamer/Orichalcum don’t seem to have the level requirement but learning specific recipes for weapons and armor do.

It’s not like our low level toons haven’t been crafting level 80 exotics in the past once they’ve maxed out their crafting profession; consequently, I find that it’s a bit odd that they would start placing level restrictions on these weapons and armor.

I found that odd as well. I have never seen a recipe have a level requirement to learn it.. and it is account bound items so I cannot figure any reasoning behind it at all. I had 1 crafting profession on a lower level character so I guess those will just eat up space until I decide to level her.

I posted a suggestion to change this. I don’t understand the philosophy myself. I have 2 alts that aren’t 80 (by choice) that have 4 of my crafts on them. Jewel/Cook and Weapon/Armor. As it stands now, I won’t be able to make my Elementalist any of the weapons she’d like or possibly jewelry (though that isn’t as critical because of the ascended gear).

I guess there was some fine print we missed when we spread our crafts around to alts that said something along the lines of:

“You can avoid having to pay the 4g switching cost by spreading your crafts around to other characters, in fact we encourage it! Playing alts means more bag space and other purchases from the gem store! However, 10 months from now, we’ll most likely arbitrarily reward those people who use the 4g sink rather than alts! So while we encourage alts, we do not encourage alts!”

But…there was no explosion…

Before anyone else mentions it, there are recipes out there that had level restrictions like Vallog’s Demise. These recipes are extremely rare so not many people noticed or clamored for change.

Personally, I think these level requirements are unintended. Isn’t it strange that specific gifts used to craft legendaries (ex. Gift of Light) don’t have level requirements while these do?

I agree this requirement is absurd and must be unintended. It would defy anet’s philosophy of crafting since day 1.

I hope it’s not intentional. I went ahead and bought everything and found nooks and crannies to shove things while I wait for that requirement to be dropped so I can mem them up and blissfully remain under 50th level on those 2 characters.

Just realized some of my crafters aren’t level 80..yeah, I didn’t think about this beforehand. T_T

I believe the Corrupted weapons also require level 80 to learn.

+1… No reason for a Level Requirement on these consumables. We should be able to craft them on our whichever lower level Alts we’ve dedicated to that Discipline. The stupid Crystal Charging thing is already enough hoops to jump through as it is.

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I believe the Corrupted weapons also require level 80 to learn.

To be fair, they aren’t timed limited as these are.

Well there’s a good reason to level a toon to 80. It’s not like once the event is done and gone the recipes will vanish. Heck I sat on a complete cooking recipe from the Molten Alliance event till last week.

Doesn’t really bother me in the slightest, mainly cause I had four different level 80s cover all 8 crafting professions.

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I believe the Corrupted weapons also require level 80 to learn.

To be fair, they aren’t timed limited as these are.

Sure, but you can do what I did with the Corrupted recipes: Pick them up before you are level 80, and learn them when you are.

Unlike the corrupted weapons, the Celestial weapons aren’t rare skins since they share the same skins as other Pearl weapons (besides, that’s not what’s limiting you from crafting corrupted weapons anyway).

People want the celestial weapons/armor for the stats. We’re already time-gated by the way charged quartz works and the items crafted are account bound anyway. Why the hell would they add one more barrier for actually crafting and using them? It’s like they don’t want people to actually make use of these weapons/armor.

I’m assuming they meant that to be level 80 to wear the armor and just made a mistake. If not, I’m not affected because my crafters are level 80 but I still think it is a bad idea. Some people have crafting alts they they don’t plan on leveling.