Guild Wars 2

It would be great if a few things could happen to the discoveries tab that would allow crafting discoveries to be attempted easier.

At the moment, for my cooking guy, I have to take every ingredient out of my collections stash before I can find new discoveries. There are so many, that I have to take some out, identify the ones that don’t have available discoveries, put those back, take some more out, identify the ones that don’t have available discoveries, put those back, rinse and repeat until I’ve gone through all of the ingredients I have. This takes a significant amount of time.

I suggest that there be a gear on the discoveries tab, similar to the one on our inventories. Clicking on it gives you three options:
*Option one is “Show Higher Level Recipes (Off/On)”, which will make it where items that are “redded out” won’t show up in the discoveries panel.
*Option two is “Derive List from Collections (Off/On)”, which will let the game populate the discoveries tab from what you have in the collection tab, eliminating the need to sort through them manually.
*Option three is “Derive List from Bank (Off/On)”, which will let the game also populate the discoveries tab from things in your bank tab.

Alternatively, a way to know if there are available recipes for an ingredient by looking at the tooltip would work. There are colors for not having the crafting profession at all (white), having the crafting profession but not enough skill (red), and having the crafting profession and enough skill (green). Maybe two more should be added. If you have the crafting profession and the skill to use the item and: there’s a discovery to be made and you have the skill level for it (yellow/blue?) or there’s a discovery to be made but it requires a higher skill level (purple?).

The tooltip method would have the additional benefit of letting you look at a crafted ingredient’s recipe tooltip to see if they have available discoveries before you actually craft them. No more going “I wonder if this Simple Dressing has more recipes. (/crafts it) Nope, wasted ingredients. (/toss)”

We can already craft items straight from ingredients in our collections tab, so they seem to be open to these kind of conveniences. I imagine a lot of us cooks would be grateful for this.

Edit: Wasted thread. Just saw the Sept. 8 update:

· Players can now do the production portion of crafting without having to pull the resources from their bank. Note: Discovery still requires use of the bank. This is something we would like to change but decided that getting part of the way there was better than making players wait for the entire fix.