Thread: Why are (most but not all) Great River recipes bound?

I wanted a nice set of crafted jewelry for my burglar who is approaching level 75. So I figured, I'll ask a friend if he can craft me some Great River pieces. I suggested I would barter the recipes for him so he wouldn't have to pay a large amount of Silver Tokens of the Anduin (consider 6 pieces... and of course I want the critted versions... so that might be 12 recipes in total, which makes 240 tokens).

So I bartered a jeweler recipe only to discover that the recipe was bound when I tried to mail it! Why? I can't ask my friend to invest 240 tokens to craft me a nice jewelry set? I am also unable to hand over tokens so he can barter the recipes...

So I checked the other recipes... and it turns out weaponsmithing and cooking recipes are not bound? Cooking ones are special anyway because they are not single use (would be strange if those were single use), but why make weaponsmithing recipes not bound and all the other ones bound?

Would be nice if there was a dev around who could comment on this. Is it a bug that many of these recipes are bound? Or is it a bug that weaponsmithing recipes are not bound?

Great River jewelry recipes are available from the Guild vendor...but you'll need to supply Cracked Sigils of Rhi Helvarch and wait a few weeks while your friend makes the required Large Westfold rep items.

(Having rep-based recipes bound is not new. For armor and jewelry sets, the practice goes back at least to Lothlorien.)

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

Thank you for your answer! I somehow completely missed that these recipes were also available from the craftings guilds and I thought that bartering the single use ones was the only way to obtain them.