Guild Wars 2

Warning by design if you purchase more than one ascended recipe for 21K make sure you check to insure you dont already have the recipe.

If you mistakenly choose the wrong stat you will not get a warning that you already own this recipe until after you have been swindled out of 21K worth of Karma.

In fact Anet stated to me in an email you are more than welcome to buy as many as you want….

Also remember this recipe cannot be sold so the scroll will be worthless.

I did keep my worthless ascended scroll as a reminder since Anet felt it better to punish such mistakes by design…

You can learn them on multiple characters, so of course you can buy more than 1 of them.

That was clearly not the point of the warning. It was to warn others to be certain you are not duplicating a recipe on your alt as you will get a warning that it is a duplicate only after you wasted the karma. I hope your not one of the Anet tech support reps…as they failed to comprehend the message too….and could only provide a canned response and then avoid answering the question I asked which was it by design that if you mistakenly choose a duplicate you foreit the karma?

responding back that you can buy as much as you want is not a direct answer………..to the question asked…

Just to be clear, this was the case with every recipe ingame since alpha.

Just make possible to trade it back. No damage done.

That is fine the game has been this way, but for majority of the game now nearly any attempts to purchase an item in duplicate such as dyes and recipes you already know it wont allow it or has red letters warning you that you already know it,,, this is the first time for me to discover you can accidently purchase a recipe without prior warning more than once on an alt and be out the cost with no way to recover like selling on tp….

Most MMOs have now a system to trade it back in a certain time. And if not, the customer service will refund you etc.

GW2 has one of the worst customer services I ever had contact with. Or let’s say: their system allows the customer service almost nothing. There is a lot to do in terms of customer friendliness.

I beg to differ as I have never had an issue that Anet Support did not resolve to my satisfaction rather promptly. You are entitled to your opinion, but my experiences with Support is NOT indicative of your overly negative comments.