I know this issue has probably already been addressed in a number of ways (Removing HoH, refunding Cr for Azure, Leviathan, etc.) but the whole idea of recipes being bound doesn't sit well with me. I understand the idea is to prevent the AH from being inundated with easily acquired recipes but there should be a way to do something with these recipes inside from learn them. For people who already have them it leaves them stuck with a recipe they cannot do anything with. Personally, I recently accidentally double purchased a recipe in the HoH and now I'm out crown for a useless item. The problem could be easily fixed. Off the bat I have two possible proposals.
1) Add a NPC that will by back bound items at a lower value (if not items in general just recipes)
2) Make it so that a recipe can be relearned increasing your chance of unique variants when alchemizing said item or when alchemizing in general (an alchemy level/stat so to speak)
Pretty much anything would be nice so that players don't just have to eat their losses when they either A) make a stupid mistake as I did or B) were loyal to the game long before the update and now are receiving moot rewards for continuing to play while new players reap the benefits.
All thoughts, questions, comments, concerns, family recipes regarding the matter are welcome.
Stupid game mistake is stupid game mistake. Most people deal with it, or whine. That being said:
Option one is the same as increasing sellback. Nothing new there.
Stacking learned recipes for uv will lead to many players hitting the max bonus, whether it be low or not, and ragecrafting the 2 or 3* line over and over. This'll flood the market with loads of vanilla items, and increase the number of uv's. All good for the buyer.
But not good for punch, which some people rely on for uv's. And punch is a great crownsink.