Guild Wars 2

I have several precursor collections open.

I have an entire bank tab of items that may or may not be required for future components of said precursor crafting.

Note, I said “may or may not”.

Last night, I sold Expertise In Advanced Pistol Crafting thinking it was a collection item, not the recipe item that it is.

First, why is this item vendorable? It is used once in the process, and is not offered as a replacement item by any NPC.

I’ve filed a support ticket, but I really would like to see a change to how these items are marked (either by icon or text).

We have tool tip text that says “account bound”, “sould bound”, “..used in crafting legendary…” etc. It would be nice to have something as simple as “Important recipe item”. Or just make them not vendorable.

I agree that the way these items are labelled could be better, and the ones you need to salvage, craft with or recipes you need to learn should not have a vendor value.

This comes up on a regular basis after someone makes a mistake similar to yours and I imagine Support must spend a lot of time (relatively to any other individual mistake) replacing lost Legendary components. Which is bad, but makes me hopeful that it will be changed.

I was going to suggest using the Wiki to work out which items you need to save, I found it extremely helpful when I was making The Legend. But the page for Expertise in Advanced Pistol Crafting really isn’t clear. I don’t want to edit it since I don’t know how the item is used but it could do with more information.

I believe you actually can buy a replacement for the recipe from Grandmaster Hobbs in Lion’s Arch, See https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tricks_and_Tips_for_Mechanical_Pistol_Crafting

(At the bottom, it says you can purchase from him after completing the achievement.)

Ykfox.3825:

I believe you actually can buy a replacement for the recipe from Grandmaster Hobbs in Lion’s Arch, See https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tricks_and_Tips_for_Mechanical_Pistol_Crafting

(At the bottom, it says you can purchase from him after completing the achievement.)

I just went to see if Hobbes has that, and he does. Thanks. Hopefully this will resolve the issue.