Guild Wars 2

Hi,

One of the key parts of crafting is Discovery. But, if you’re leveling a craft, you don’t just ‘discover’ stuff. You go to a website that tells you what to do, and do it. Discovery is not serving it’s purpose in the game, and one wonders why we even need it any more.

Just let us learn the recipes at the right levels and get rid of Discovery IMHO.

What do you think?

Doesn’t matter where you read about the recipes-who cares—you use discover to learn the recipes your toons use. It get more points to level your crafting lvl faster.
So NO!!! Your way—more grind/time gating.

There were suposed to be many, many more discoverable recipes in crafting (the same way cooking is now). At some point Anet decided however, that any newly added recipes will be unlockables instead. Thus it was one more case when a good and interesting design got wasted later with dull implementation.

Because some of us don’t go to websites and blindly follow instructions designed to just gain levels from crafting. You get MUCH better crafting XP for discovering than just crafting a previously known recipe. building 10 of the same thing is just easier from a material purchasing standpoint.

Well, obviously they would have to boost xp for regular recipes a little bit to compensate if they take discoveries away.

One could say that those people going to crafting guides and using the instructions there are “cheating the system”. The game was meant to let players to discover their own recipes through experimentation. If you are fine with this, then go right ahead! But don’t take away the thrill of discovery for those who prefer to find out the recipes on their own.

I always discover items for crafting and craft what I feel like based on the drops I get.

Going to these websites and just creating the same old stuff, is no fun at all.

For example, Chef-by-discovery is MUCH more fun that Chef-by-cheat-sheet.

Because it invokes a feeling of accomplishment and progression, which hooks players in. Psychology.

In English: Because Discover makes things more interesting than cheat-sheet crafting. Unfortunately, in practice, it’s really boring outside of Cooking…

Because some of us don’t go to websites and blindly follow instructions designed to just gain levels from crafting.

I agree a lot, much, totally, ect…

Do NOT take discovery out of crafting, learning the Cook was the most enjoyous Profession of all.

I am more and more annoyed by recipes you cannot discover, but have to buy.
They lately proliferate like mushrooms, worst example being Celestial stuff.
But there are too many examples by now I am afraid.

This messes up the crafting system logic which was at gamestart quite an interesting one.

Every single recipe should be able to be discovered and SOLD.