Guild Wars 2

It’s 1:40AM I’m tired but I want to write this down while it is fresh. I was misguided by the game and it cost me a small fortune. (Or I just didn’t know) To make this story short, I bought Zojja Tassets recipe and use it on my Charr (no 500 Armour smith) then I switch to my Asura (with 500 Armour smith) to craft it. But it wasn’t on the crafting list!!I then discovered that recipes are only per character or ‘soul bind’. Before anyone says otherwise “You should’ve known that”, I don’t blame the game. But it could have more warnings! So basically I spent 10 laurels 6 GOLD for just the recipe. Not once did the item says “Once you use this, it will stuck in this current character forever!”. In fact, all it said was consumable and account bound. Having played this game for 3 years when I see ‘Account Bound’ I assume it is account wide and since Ascended items are ‘Account bound’ I assume the recipe is account wide access too.

Possible solution?
- Add a warning, like how you equip Exotic weapons it will say “This will be soul bound to this character”. <— That would’ve warned me if the ascended recipe have it.

Note on the attachment, if you’re wondering why the recipe in this image is not ‘Zojja Tasset’ it is because I bought a new recipe just to show that it ONLY says ‘Account bound’ and no warning is given.

Thank you,,,, im sleepy now.

You could try contacting support to see if they could help you out here.

Account Bound refers to the recipe consumable itself. Think of it like account bound food – you can move it around to any of your characters, and not sell it to other people (hence, account bound), but once you eat the food, it only gives the effect to the character that ate it.

But yes, some sort of warning about this has been requested several times already.

[Soulbind on Use] would be nice…

…Silly question, but you crafted all the way to 500 without noticing that unlocked recipes were character-specific?

10 laurels and 6g isn’t something to sneeze at, but I’m not sure I’d call it a small fortune, compared to the costs incurred crafting to 500 and building an ascended weapon. By that point, I think players should generally understand that crafting progress and unlocks are all character-specific.

Could more warnings be beneficial? Sure. But that’s the case with anything that doesn’t include explicit hand-holding, and crafting as a system seems to clearly establish its rules long before a player should be buying ascended recipes.

Sorry for your misfortune, though! Mistakes can happen to anyone.