Guild Wars 2

Recently I was working on the Bifrost staff. When I finally completed my collections, I was so excited finally getting the recipes and box at the end of my journey, that I immediately double clicked on the recipes…only to discover I had learned them on the wrong character.

My ranger, however, is not my artificer. So I contacted CS with this problem (I gather this conundrum is not unique) and they so graciously provided me replacement recipes with the caveat that I make sure I was on the right character to learn them.

But, I kept thinking about that and realized this is a relatively common occurrence and there might be a better way to handle it. So I came up with a few ideas that might work.

If the character who is looking at the recipe does not have the appropriate crafting:
1. Do not allow that character to even learn the recipe
2. Have the recipe say that in red letters “you do not have appropriate crafting to learn this” (just like it does when you get a recipe that you already know)

I am sure there are other players with similar ideas but I really felt that, if I had noticed red lettering across the recipe or, had gotten a popup saying “you can’t learn that,” I would not have made this mistake.

Besides, this would also help the CS folks out too.

Without going into implementation issues, ANet should find some way of dealing with the fact that:

• Everyone has crafting specialist characters.
• Many expensive or difficult-to-acquire recipes only work on 1-2 disciplines.

It is therefore inevitable that anyone who crafts will eventually ‘learn’ the right recipe on the wrong character, and then bother support, acquire it again (and be upset about it), or sulk (and give up on the project). Whichever the case, it diminishes enjoyment of the game…for everyone who crafts.

In other words, although this is a relatively small issue, it affects a huge fraction of the community and so it’s worth working on some sort of solution, whatever that turns out to be.

I just wish they would make all the crafting account-based already.

FogLeg.9354:

I just wish they would make all the crafting account-based already.

or just the recipes. What one character learn all learn. You need to level crafting for all the characters so if you want to lvl up with crafting you still can…

You can re-buy the collection rewards at the legendary collections NPC for 10k karma.

Contacting CS seems to me to be entirely unnecessary in this case.

That said, I find it indeed strange that you can learn recipes on characters that only can use 1/3rd of the recipes. TBH the whole 10k karma thing is also pretty much paying for a systems it is really easy to make mistakes in.

FrizzFreston.5290:

You can re-buy the collection rewards at the legendary collections NPC for 10k karma.

Contacting CS seems to me to be entirely unnecessary in this case.

That said, I find it indeed strange that you can learn recipes on characters that only can use 1/3rd of the recipes. TBH the whole 10k karma thing is also pretty much paying for a systems it is really easy to make mistakes in.

Interesting….I was unaware of that. I wonder why the CS team did not suggest it to me.

But still, that sorta makes the idea of the recipe being learned on the wrong character rather confusing if the recipes can be purchased again. It would make more sense to just make them account-wide.

If one character inadvertently learns a recipe, even if they don’t practice that crafting profession, it should be able to be accessed by the correct character anyway through their crafting options.

This would solve this problem and folks would not need to bother CS for things of this nature.