Guild Wars 2

Am I the only one who accidentally make dowels when making planks? Why do we even have dowels? Can’t we just exchange all dowels in recipes for planks? Or add an ability to salvage dowels for planks.

I just find it’s a pointless step that has caused me anguish multiple times.

Make planks not dowels. There I solve your problem.

Sell dowels on tp with listed price.

I’m pretty sure everyone has at some point either accidentally click ‘craft all’ when they wanted to make just 1 dowel, or clicked dowel when they wanted planks.

Now I always double check what I’m making before I make it. Which has come in useful when I got to ascended crafting and already knew to check whether buying the 5g recipe from the crafting NPC would actually let me make the one I wanted or if I needed a unique recipe from somewhere else.

I have done this before, only a few weeks ago I accidently crafted a stack of dowels instead of planks because I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. I don’t think there should be any change/anything needed to be done though, as it’s a fully avoidable mistake, it just means paying attention to what you’re crafting (unlike what I did that day I crafted stack lol).

Just sell them on the tp with listed price like Justine said. Then just pay attention and double check next time you go to craft some.

PEBKAC is the truth

Oh I already know to check and sell the dowels, but my point is, dowels as an item are just a pointless extra step and when you make them, the only use you have for them are making inscriptions while on the other hand, the plank used to make them have a huge variety of uses.

And consider all the advanced inscription recipes: The advanced ones don’t have dowels, they have plated dowels which use other material which is a clearer indicator of what you’re crafting. Even then, they could just get rid of dowels and make the inscription just have added metal to the recipe. Or at the very least just make the dowels salvageable along with lots of other crafting components used to craft gear.

If not that, why not make the dowels usable in more recipes? Why don’t all plated dowels require a dowel to make?