Guild Wars 2

I have taken the time to create a few bulk armorsmithing patterns with the mystic forge, but I noticed they all require more materials than simply crafting the set one piece at a time. A friend of mine that took leatherworking has made a few bulk recipes and they require the same materials for him to craft the set.

Box of Simple Mighty Chain Armor – should take 4 weak blood, it takes 7.
Box of Knight’s Draconic Armor (Exotic) – should take 6 Knight’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia, it takes 10.

I can’t help but be curious why these “Bulk” items do not require less materials than making everything individually, either.

how do i discover those recipes and with what items? mainly the box of simple might chain armor

I’m having that same issue… I just essentially wasted 50 mystic coins and spent a ton of money on wine to get something that makes crafting the things I want even more expensive to make. You would assume that it should require less materials than crafting each single piece by itself. This has to be a bug and if it isn’t then it makes spending the time and money on getting the recipe worthless. I’m just sad that I spent all that money in hopes to have a way to get my armor set… If anyone of the people at AN could explain, I would be extremely grateful for the response.