Account-wide Recipes & Crafting Leveling
Account-wide recipes are a great thing. Finally, we don’t have to buy tons of recipes, or shuffle recipes around through the bank. However, there is one major issue: crafting leveling. Crafting leveling depends largely on crafting XP from discovery. Since recipes are now account wide, if you ever need to level a second character in a discipline, they cannot discover anything that you have ever crafted before. This can as much as double the amount of crafting that needs to be done to reach a level, and is especially painful in the 400-500 realm. There needs to be a mechanism for compensating for the crafting XP deficit that we now have.
Why would you bother leveling a second character in a crafting discipline when you already have one character that can supply your needs? Unless, I think, you delete the character who has that crafting discipline… which then begs the question of why anyone would bother deleting a character with so much invested into it? At the very least you can park that already-leveled character as a farmer, then have ’em craft anything you need when you need it. Leveling multiple toons in the same crafting discipline is redundant.
~EW
Account-wide recipes are a great thing. Finally, we don’t have to buy tons of recipes, or shuffle recipes around through the bank. However, there is one major issue: crafting leveling. Crafting leveling depends largely on crafting XP from discovery. Since recipes are now account wide, if you ever need to level a second character in a discipline, they cannot discover anything that you have ever crafted before. This can as much as double the amount of crafting that needs to be done to reach a level, and is especially painful in the 400-500 realm. There needs to be a mechanism for compensating for the crafting XP deficit that we now have.
The only recipes that are account wide are ones you consume so it will have no effect in the discovery tab for a new character.