Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if anyone has had this problem, or if I’m just missing something…

When crafting in the discovery plane, there are times when I am unable to use certain materials because they are not in the choices on the left where all the materials in my inventory, bank, and collection should be.

For example: I will have 5 Intricate Totems in my collection and 5 Intricate Totems in my inventory, but the Intricate Totem will not appear on the left side to be chosen from in order to make a discovery. It is not just a picture of the material colored dark red; I mean it is not there at all.

This isn’t just happening with Intricate Totems, but with many other materials. I have wasted a lot of gold buying mats only to find that there is no way for me to make discoveries. What, if anything, am I doing wrong ?

Which profession is this? There are only 3 discoverable artificer recipes and 1 tailor recipe. The rest are learned automatically or requires a recipe sheet.

Khisanth.2948:

Which profession is this? There are only 3 discoverable artificer recipes and 1 tailor recipe. The rest are learned automatically or requires a recipe sheet.

not true. there are many discoverable recipes for each profesion. artificer have dozens of potions and sigils, tailor got dozens of runes, specialized bags, etc

as for crafting materials not showing in discovery page – they don’t show up if you can no longer discover anything using them

Saulius.8430:

Khisanth.2948:

Which profession is this? There are only 3 discoverable artificer recipes and 1 tailor recipe. The rest are learned automatically or requires a recipe sheet.

not true. there are many discoverable recipes for each profesion. artificer have dozens of potions and sigils, tailor got dozens of runes, specialized bags, etc

as for crafting materials not showing in discovery page – they don’t show up if you can no longer discover anything using them

Uh discoverable recipes using those totems -_-

If it doesn’t show up in the discovery panel, you already know every discoverable recipe that uses that item. If it shows up but in red, it means their are more recipes but they’re above your current crafting level.

If you know (via looking it up on Wiki or something) that there are other recipes that use Totems but you can’t make them, chances are they’re learned by recipe sheet and not discovery. Or you do actually have them, but you’re missing them or your filters are hiding them from you.

Electro.4173:

If it doesn’t show up in the discovery panel, you already know every discoverable recipe that uses that item. If it shows up but in red, it means their are more recipes but they’re above your current crafting level.

If you know (via looking it up on Wiki or something) that there are other recipes that use Totems but you can’t make them, chances are they’re learned by recipe sheet and not discovery. Or you do actually have them, but you’re missing them or your filters are hiding them from you.

The wiki also indicates if something is discovered, learned automatically or requires a recipe sheet.

Possible reasons why item is not showing up:

1. The item that uses the material is AUTO discovered when you hit the correct crafting level (material will NEVER show up in discovery window for those auto discovery recipes). Craftable item is already in your crafting list in this case.
2. No discoverable recipes are within 5 levels of your current crafting level that use that material (show up as red 5 levels before you can actually use them).
3. The recipe the item is used in is NOT discoverable, but has to be obtained thru other means.
4. You have already discovered the item and just do not remember doing so (it’s in your crafting list).