Guild Wars 2

It would have made sense to not make them account bound. Not only because those recipes don’t say they produce an account bound product, or that these recipes have no level requirement as opposed to all other celestial recipes (which I consider a bug not in line with anet’s crafting philopophy since day 1), but also because it promotes trade. Those that don’t want celestial insignia/inscriptions can make them for others and earn some decent coin, while others can deck themselves out in the gear they prefer.

But that eliminates the whole purpose of time-gating it and getting people to do their daily Gift of Quartz (has a chance of granting Charged Quartz).

Not entirely. It just means you would pay a significantly higher price for it. The same way you can buy a near ascended amulet on the TP in one go (for about 180g) – or wait 30+ days to buy almost the same amulet with laurels. Moreover, in this case, it still requires you to craft the final product (armor/weapons) on a lvl 80 character with the relevant maxed out profession yourself. So you can’t buypass that step.

It’s just so people like me who have every recipe won’t flood the market with products as we gain more quartz.. also this way it makes all those recipes we’re finding right now worth something since anyone who wants the items will have to craft them themselves. They just didn’t want people taking advantage of a limited supply of something and skewing the market.

Magnus Steelgrave.6580:

It’s just so people like me who have every recipe won’t flood the market with products as we gain more quartz.. also this way it makes all those recipes we’re finding right now worth something since anyone who wants the items will have to craft them themselves. They just didn’t want people taking advantage of a limited supply of something and skewing the market.

I’m only talking tradeable 2 products: orichalcum inscription and gossamer insignia. The rest, allllll the stuff you make with those, you would still have to make yourself.