Guild Wars 2

It’d be kinda nice if the flavor text of recipes it would let us know if a character already knows it. I don’t always want to log out to character select and then log in to the character that has that particular crafting skill to check to see if I already know a particular recipe, and I don’t always remember if I’ve already learned a particular recipe.

If you’re on the character that has learned the recipe, the recipe already tells us: “You already know this recipe!” or something like that.

Why not add, “Your character, <Charactername> already knows this recipe!” for when we’re not on the character that already knows it?

It would be even better if learning a recipe was account-wide. My main has learned several high-end cooking recipes that he cannot use but I have an alt with max cooking. That’s how I learned that they are not account-wide!

DoctorDing.5890:

It would be even better if learning a recipe was account-wide. My main has learned several high-end cooking recipes that he cannot use but I have an alt with max cooking. That’s how I learned that they are not account-wide!

Yeah, that would be awesome.

Idk, learning recipes account wide would be nice on the one hand, but it would undermine the ability to level alts through crafting a bit. I’d really really like some text on recipes to indicate which character (if any) already knows the recipe.

Arlee.7038:

Idk, learning recipes account wide would be nice on the one hand, but it would undermine the ability to level alts through crafting a bit. I’d really really like some text on recipes to indicate which character (if any) already knows the recipe.

It would be nice if they are account bound for the recipes that you have to buy or get lucky with rng with or get via an achievement chest.

Seera.5916:

Arlee.7038:

Idk, learning recipes account wide would be nice on the one hand, but it would undermine the ability to level alts through crafting a bit. I’d really really like some text on recipes to indicate which character (if any) already knows the recipe.

It would be nice if they are account bound for the recipes that you have to buy or get lucky with rng with or get via an achievement chest.

AH, yea that is definitely a good point

Seera.5916:

Arlee.7038:

Idk, learning recipes account wide would be nice on the one hand, but it would undermine the ability to level alts through crafting a bit. I’d really really like some text on recipes to indicate which character (if any) already knows the recipe.

It would be nice if they are account bound for the recipes that you have to buy or get lucky with rng with or get via an achievement chest.

Yes! I had to get a second set of legendary crafting recipes (they are bundled into a single recipe sheet), since I needed a crafting skill the original character didn’t have (and the recipe sheet said something like “various”).

I really would love to see recipes become account wide. It would be a more efficient way of knowing whether you already had that recipe. Also since you have to have a crafting skill to the level needed to use it I cannot see how a change like this would have any adverse impact to crafting. It is hard enough remembering which alt has which crafting skills and then have to go to that character to figure out if I have that recipe already so the other character can obtain it if I don’t – ugh… And let’s not get into accidentally using the recipe on one character only to figure out, oops! wrong alt. Crafting definitely needs some work but this would be the main change I would be in favor of – account wide recipes (getting the rest of the crafting professions to 500 would be my other wish). That and I would like to see more consumable recipes that we could get creative with hunting and fishing and gathering to make some interesting stuff. Possibly even be able to make combinations that might have some surprising results (positive or negative).