How is it possible for a level 65 character to craft Great River items when the recipes themselves require friend status with Stangard? Is this an exploit? If so has it been stopped?
Most of the rep. gated recipes from the Great River rep. NPC are single use versions of the Guild recipes.
This makes them useless/irrelevant as far as I am concerned.
I believe the only Craft Profession that gets any new recipes from the rep. gated vendors is Cooking & there are not guild versions of these recipes.