Guild Wars 2

a light recipe is only usable on a tailor station, you cant use the a light recipe at a armorsmith station to get a heavy armor piece. so if you made a heavy breast plate you bought the heavy recipe.

exactly, you used a light recipe and it unlocked it at the tailor. you can get all crafts on a single character which is why it lets you use them. if you had a recipe on armorsmith for an ascended heavy breastplate then at some point you have bought that recipe.
from what ive seen anet will not refund player mistakes so your unlikely to get anything back. your armor is still usable on a heavy character, id suggest giving it to that instead ifyou have one.

ascended gear is account bound, there is no reason to do what you are asking because you werent paying attention, since it is acct bound, you can craft gear on a warrior meant for a mesmer, just use it on a different toon.

also this is not the proper thread to post this on, its not a bug, its user error.

A S C L E P I U S.4029:

I disagree, you did not read or understand the post. No worries, I will no longer require any more responses as I will not be coming back here to post other ideas. It obviously falls upon deaf ears!

my mistake is a lot worst. I was in wvw with my war, checked the bank and calculated I have enough for an ascended heavy armor, full set. I bought the heavy armor recipe, read them all / the war is not an armorsmith.There was no warning that this character can not use this item, craft it, or whatever.When I am buying a karma item worth 140 karma, I get a warning if it is not usable on that char.Before I used up 6 recipe worth of 30 laurels and 15 gold, I get no warning. They are just lost now. f course, Ican go to the gem store and buy a licence to get another crafting proffesdion and spend a few houndred goldst to get to lev 500.

Is that why there was no warning Anet ?