Guild Wars 2

One thing i love about GuildWars2 is that almost everything is account and not bound to your character, so i feel like i am gearing up and fixing my own team of characters. One thing that currently bothers me though is that crafting is bound to one character. I know that Arenanet said they wanted us to trade so we only get 2 . But today when many have an lvl 80 of every class, and most likely all crafting disciplines leveled to max, it feels a little dated. Also its kind of annoying having to remember who has what discipline and even what recipes they have.

I don’t know how to solve that some people use crafting to level their characters, since a system like the one i am talking about would not allow more experience from crafting once all disciplines are maxed out though.

A single character can max out all creating disciplines. This would solve your issue regarding keeping track of who knows what.

Distributing disciplines only allows you to avoid the activation fee.

Also I don’t believe there are any soul bound on acquire crafted items, so having a dedicated crafter offers the equivalent of an accountwide implementation.

All you need to remember is which 4 characters have their 2 crafting disciplines maxed. Well, which crafts, but you can make some mnemonics like ‘my heavy armor character is the armorer’.

I do agree recipes should be account-wide though. I think of your characters as a family of sorts, and while you might not share the secret sauce outside the family members within it would have access.

The recipes learned with a scroll should be account wide. The discoverable recipes however should remain character based.

I dont want crafting to be account wide because I want to level my characters with crafting. The recipes learned with a scroll should be account wide.

I could see the benefit, but if implemented it should not be baseline. It should be a purchased upgrade. Kind of like the “extra crafting slot” thing.

If crafting were account wide from the start new toons could not level or benefit from it at all (except the gear you craft itself).

Also, say goodbye to Chef black lion key farming.