Guild Wars 2

It is not really a hard concept…iron is a base element. Steel is an alloy of Iron and Carbon plus others. An Iron Ingot is just a refined form of raw Iron, so reasonably there should be no reason to go from an Iron Ingot add coal, and get steel ingots. Right?

The reason for this curiosity was because I happen to have 100 iron ingots in the bank I could use to goto steel for my crafting. So I am wondering if the lack of a recipe is an oversight or an intentional dead end just to get people to mine more.

Thoughts? May be I will be lucky and get a dev comment?

As a after thought, Copper ingots to Bronze Ingots would also be good…

dont know what your craft is but as an artificer I can craft steel ingots with 2 iron ores and something else from the profession vendor. That was the next ingot I could craft after iron ingots. Never used silver ores until now. I got the artificer skill around 200 I think

I hear you SyberSmoke. They should be added added in as an additional recipe.

that would be pretty cool. i didn’t start crafting until late and i had to go back to refarm copper ingots. and of course i had a TON of iron ore. overflowed from collectibles stash to my bank (close to 200) and then when i reached the level where i could refine these, i did ALL o fthem. and after a few more recipe discoveries and some crafting, i no longer needed iron ingots.. so i was stuck with ’em. but then i used all my iron ore (lol which was my fault for not planning), so gotta go farm more now. : ///

panikos.8309:

dont know what your craft is but as an artificer I can craft steel ingots with 2 iron ores and something else from the profession vendor. That was the next ingot I could craft after iron ingots. Never used silver ores until now. I got the artificer skill around 200 I think

The thing was not how to make steel ingots. But why there is no way to turn Iron Ingots into steel ingots since Iron is Iron.

There is, buy Lumps of Coal from the Artificer vendor, then you can make Steel Ingots.

Only if you have iron ORE, not iron INGOTS.

That is a fair point, turn 5 iron ingots + lump of charcoal into 5 steel ingots.