Guild Wars 2

Why aren’t old ascended recipes avaiable from the merchants related to this mastery line? I really want to craft some keeper’s ascended gear, but the problem is that the merchants will only sell the exotic recipes. Way back I think sold the ascended ones I got, or maybe I even discarded them, because at the time the only gear used was berserker. Now things are changing a bit and I wanted to craft those ascended items for my ranger to add some beef through healing power and to be able to heal better as a druid while still dealing some damage. It turns out that the only way to aquire those recipes is through the TP and they sell for about 100 gold each. I think is quite dumb that the merchants who supposedly should give you a way to get the stat combinations you missed from old living story don’t actually give you a way to get the stat combinations you missed from old living story.

The Ascended recipes might be sold rarely. The Melandru’s Bough recipe is available today from the vendor at Garrenhoff…

That’s the only ascended recipe reandomly avaiable, as the random recipes are picked from a list and keeper’s are not on it, as the wiki explains.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Supply_Network_Agent

The wiki only shows what people have gotten and what people have updated the wiki with.

With the forge recipe to change stats on weapons and armor there is no reason buy those recipes from the TP.

Yeah but crafting 2 ascended insignas/inscriptions for just one piece of gear is costly. It’s ok if you craft one stat combination and then after a while you realize you prefer a different one, but starting with the idea to craft 2 to have 1 feels quite different. Still one extra incription/insigna costs about as much as directly buying the recipe I need.

My point is, these merchants are connected to a mastery line, they should straight out offer the insignas we need instead of having a daily chance of offering them, especially considering we’re talking about stat combination nobody used back then since the only pve activity were dungeons besides occasional living stories. That if the particular ascended stat combination I need is even a possibility. I don’t mind having to gather the materials, however having to go through hell to get just the recipes makes me nuts.

You want to promote build variety? Fine, let the players be able to craft what they wish assuming they can gather the stuff they need instead of time gating stuff like celestial and hiding stat combinations behind a daily rng. No wonder everybody gears up in zerker, fast to craft and effective. Want to get zealot’s? Hope the recipes show up, then buy the mining pick, then go mine an infinite amount of random ores. Want celestial? Sorry pal, just one charged a day and you can’t even buy them… assuming you can get the recipes.

Lucky Shot.7650:

Yeah but crafting 2 ascended insignas/inscriptions for just one piece of gear is costly.

You don’t need another ascended to change stats, just gossamer/orichalcum.