Guild Wars 2

If you joined the game after last year’s Wintersday, you will not be able to craft Giver’s armor yet. The Giver’s insignia had to be discovered through a recipe, which you bought from a Gift Exchange vendor during last year’s Wintersday.

You can either buy Giver’s armor from the Trading Post now, or wait until December for Wintersday to return to buy your own recipe for the Giver’s insignia.

Hope this helped!

Giver’s Recipes were available as part of Wintersday, which is why the require snowflakes. They’ll probably return again this winter, but for now, the recipes are inaccessible if you don’t have them already.

You can, however, buy the inscriptions on the trading post (4.4g for armor, 7.7g for weapon,) as well as simply buying Giver’s armor/weapons directly off the trading post. They’re not cheap, but neither are the materials (Flawless Snowflakes,) and only people who participated in Wintersday can craft them, way out here in October.

Edit: Looks like PurebladeProductions beat me to it.

Redenaz.8631:

Giver’s Recipes were available as part of Wintersday, which is why the require snowflakes. They’ll probably return again this winter, but for now, the recipes are inaccessible if you don’t have them already.

You can, however, buy the inscriptions on the trading post (4.4g for armor, 7.7g for weapon,) as well as simply buying Giver’s armor/weapons directly off the trading post. They’re not cheap, but neither are the materials (Flawless Snowflakes,) and only people who participated in Wintersday can craft them, way out here in October.

Edit: Looks like PurebladeProductions beat me to it.

The recipes for the Exotic Givers Insignia/Inscription are still available on the Trading Post for under 20 silver.

The same is true for flawless snowflakes.
Also, last time i checked, the Givers Inscription was the cheapest one to craft from all the exotic inscriptions (apart from celestial).

For real? The OP said you can’t buy them on the trading post, so I figured (s)he had already checked there first, and I didn’t bother to check if that was actually true or not. I’m not sure what this topic is even about, if you can just go out and buy the recipes. :/

As for the price, I think I was doing the math with Pristine Snowflakes (tier 5, 26.7s each,) instead of Flawless (tier 6, 8.52s each,) because stupid snowflakes. Arglebargle.

It’s confusing enough to keep them straight without the higher-tier material being the second-cheapest in cost, with the absolute cheapest being Unique Snowflakes, which are…fourth tier, apparently. Thanks for setting me straight.

Snowflake market is screwed up, man.

Redenaz.8631:

For real? The OP said you can’t buy them on the trading post, so I figured (s)he had already checked there first, and I didn’t bother to check if that was actually true or not. I’m not sure what this topic is even about, if you can just go out and buy the recipes. :/

As for the price, I think I was doing the math with Pristine Snowflakes (tier 5, 26.7s each,) instead of Flawless (tier 6, 8.52s each,) because stupid snowflakes. Arglebargle.

It’s confusing enough to keep them straight without the higher-tier material being the second-cheapest in cost, with the absolute cheapest being Unique Snowflakes, which are…fourth tier, apparently. Thanks for setting me straight.

Snowflake market is screwed up, man.

Well, the OP is right, there is no recipe for givers draconic helm, as you have to discover that one, once you crafted or bought an exotic givers inscription.

Concerning prices, as you need 10 t6 snowflakes for the inscription, it will only be cheaper than other inscriptions, if other t6 mats arent cheaper than 17 silver, then.

I bought some stacks of recipes for the inscriptions/insignias before ascended crafting came along, for about 2s each.

The inscriptions are at 14 silver each now, so that was a good investment.