Guild Wars 2

I want to craft a specific item as powerful as possible for my level-X alt. I have to go through an awful lot to figure it out.

“Okay. Things around darksteel would probably do. I want the Knight’s version, though. I haven’t discovered that yet. My other darksteel items seem appropriate; they’re close to but under X. Okay, let’s try this… Oh, crap. It’s X+5. Useless!” Yes, I could eventually use it, but by and large I’ve just wasted some mats (which is especially frustrating at T4 and T5).

Now, I don’t know the precise ins and outs of how everything is ordered in crafting; I’ve caught on to things, of course. And maybe I’m just stupid. But it seems that “I want to craft a Knight’s axe that my level-X alt can use” should be a point of entry in the UI, and it’s not.

Of course if I discovered everything I possibly could, I’d surely know (although even then I’d have to open each recipe to tell); but what a waste of precious mats.

I know this isn’t the solution you’re looking for but on the wiki, you can look up recipes by crafting level, which are tied to the character level