Guild Wars 2

Ok I bought an ascended recipe for 21k of karma.
I opened it and picked a stat.
All good so far.
Now a few weeks later I decided I needed another bought the recipe.
While in my bag double clicked and then chose the stats I thought I needed.

Opps turns out I already have that stat recipe.

Now I have a recipe sheet in my inventory that shouts in red that I already have this recipe if I double click it ???

So if I already have the recipe then why was I allowed to choose it twice and or why is recipe sheet not gone from my inventory?

Many other items warn you if you have the recipe or dye etc …

Just wondering cause karma takes time to accumulate and hate to think it was by design that you could lose it.

You can always contact CS and ask about the issue. Perhaps, they will adjust it for you. Good luck.

well I guess it is by design/method to punish player/customer:
based on response from anet. In fact you can buy the already known recipe as many times as you want according to the response (while avoiding answering the question I asked) but of course it wont work as you already have it and now you cant sell it.

see below response(s):

Ok I bought an ascended recipe for 21k of karma.
I opened it and picked a stat.
All good so far.
Now a few weeks later I decided I needed another bought the recipe.
While in my bag double clicked and then chose the stats I thought I needed.
Opps turns out I already have that stat recipe.
Now I have a recipe sheet in my inventory that shouts in red that I already have this recipe if I double click it ???
So if I already have the recipe then why was I allowed to choose it twice and or why is recipe sheet not gone from my inventory?
Many other items warn you if you have the recipe or dye etc …
Just wondering cause karma takes time to accumulate and hate to think it was by design that you could lose it.

Thanks for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team. As a general rule, we are not able to replace items, and that is true in the case of the item that you have requested.
Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
Regards,

Hello,
I wasn’t asking for a replacement though it would be greatly appreciated if indeed my ascended recipe currently in XXXXX’S inventory was somehow reset,
I was asking is it by design that when you pick a stat for an ascended recipe that you already know,
that it will be accepted (when you click accept) and you will lose the karma spent for a recipe you already knew and basically you are left with a unusable/untradeable ascended recipe scroll in your inventory as a reminder?
It seems that for most recipes warn you if you already know the recipe in red letters (and usually those you can sell).
Shouldn’t this be the case for these much more time consuming and costly ascended recipes (the ones you choose stats for)?
I just want a straight answer please.
Is it by design by the developers that when choosing stats for an ascended recipe, that it is made this way to penalize the player for making a poor choice/mistake (choosing the same recipe twice)?
I want to know for sure, so that I may warn others on the forums,
that they must be extremely careful when choosing stats for karma purchased recipes requiring stat choices, as they will lose the karma and end up having a useless duplicate recipe that is not tradable in there inventory should they overlook that they already know the recipe and click accept.

Thank you for getting back to us.
We understand your concern, but as previously stated we are not able to replace this item. Regarding your question, a player can purchase this type of recipes as many times as he or she wants.
Thank you for your understanding on the matter. Should you have any other doubts or concerns, please let us know.
Regards,

You can purchase it again, because each time you are able to select different stats. If they made it so you could only purchase it once, how would you ever be able to craft the same weapon, but with different stats?

Preventing you from choosing the same stats twice would be a different issue.

When you were choosing your recipe, the same warning that you had already unlocked it on that character was in the tooltip. You can still unlock it on another character, which is why they don’t stop you from choosing it. Read the description more carefully in the future to avoid wasting currency. Not much more to say on this.

No when I purchased the recipe then double clicked to choose stats, I actually went back to the crafting table to check to see if I had it, clearly I overlooked it, I then returned to the stat choice and picked one I had already not realizing this. I then clicked accept , then discovered the recipe was still in my bag but now it says I already know that recipe. There was zero warning.

Oh yes I know that you can use it on a different alt provided your willing to spend the money time to increase another alt to 500 lvl…

what would be nice if a pop up like when you salvage rares that asks you are your sure you want to salvage the rare ? would be nice if a pop up says hey your alt already knows this recipe,,,,,,

Anyways I just posted the warning if you know this already fine there is nothing to see here move along…
For others just be sure you dont already have the recipe….as you will be out the karma with no way to sell and asking anet if this is by design will result in answers that do not fit the question asked.

I think you didn’t pay attention when you choose the stats.

FLiP.7680:

I think you didn’t pay attention when you choose the stats.

Busted.

I think I mentioned in this thread that I looked over my currently owned items and well frankly being a fallible human being overlooked it. I said as much however it appears to me they tried to remedy this potential hazard in other area like dyes and non asecended recipes which you could at least sell.

Anet has pretty much it is buy design that you will be punished for the mistake.

Fine I learned and in fact keep the useless scroll in my bag as a reminder, I posted this to warn others so they do not make the same mistake…

Not clear why one would suggest I was busted as if I had not admitted that I had overlooked the recipe in my list?

What ever the warning is still valid..

I think people were responding to this part of your OP:

‘It seems that for most recipes warn you if you already know the recipe in red letters (and usually those you can sell).
Shouldn’t this be the case for these much more time consuming and costly ascended recipes (the ones you choose stats for)?
I just want a straight answer please.’

Thus, they were alerting you to the fact that the warning you asked about is already in-game on the item you were concerned with. =)