Guild Wars 2

The info displayed in recipe tooltips is very much lacking, particularly for food items. With most armor/weapons, just seeing “A recipe to make Soldier’s Draconic Gloves” is often enough because it’s fairly easy to remember that which stat combo “Soldier’s” refers to. But when the recipe info is limited to “Recipe: Cactus Soup”, you really have no idea what you’re actually looking at. There is no reference to what “Cactus Soup” actually does.

This is something that’s been an annoyance/inconvenience since release, but the latest living story chapter really highlights it. An item that costs 130 of a somewhat slow to come by currency should not be a blind purchase. The new recipes creating account bound food makes it even worse, because you can’t even sell the food if the recipe turns out to be something that you won’t use yourself. The combination of cost and being account bound is also likely cause for the general lack of information on these new foods from out-of-game resources like the wiki and this forum.

Can we get some better in-game info on recipes? At least the ones sold by NPC vendors, and particularly the food items that lack a standard naming scheme.

Or at least tell me if a food item is going to be account bound before I get the recipe >.<

Aren’t they already in the wiki?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Aren’t they already in the wiki?

Some are, some aren’t. They won’t show up there until someone that contributes to the wiki actually buys a recipe and sees what it makes.