Augmentations recipes locked

[ornate granite]

Any idea why they are locked and how to unlock them ?

I placed them down near enough to the crafting stations and it doesn't work for me. I watched videos about he augmentations and in the videos he was earlier in the questline than I am. I cant buy any recipes from the essence trader (level 30 the max level where I went) so I am lost at this point.

Do I need to do some side quest or did I just missed something somewhere ?

[snow cape]

When I inspect some of my crafting stations surrounded by augmentations they sometimes say (paraphrased) "this isn't high enough tier to benefit from this augmentation"

[bold maple]

Don't you still have to either buy the crafting blueprints from an essence trader, or find them at points of interest to unlock them?

[frank folio]

Yes. The Augmentations show the possible recipes, but you still have to unlock them in the realms. If you go to the Guidebook in game there is a tab called "Traders" and you can see what recipes can be unlocked in each realm (either from POIs or you can go to the trader and buy them).

[bold maple]

Backseat Gamedev time: I think the augmentations are unlocked way too early for something so useless until you also unlock the blueprints and it just leads to bad gamefeel. A lot of confused players are going to build them and then get upset that they don't do what they appear to say they do.

I think it's the conflicting nature of "is this a survival crafting game, or is it a dungeoning game?" coming into play. The augmentations are part of the survival crafting progress/technology system, but they're locked out by the dungeoning system.

scurries over to the Feedback form

[snow cape]

I would at least like some more benign discouragement of "you probably don't need this yet"

[bold maple]

I think either way it would feel bad, because if you unlocked the recipes before you unlocked the augmentation plans you'd be just as unable to make them as you are when you put down the augmentation and it does nothing.

[tight bison]

These are locked as you have not learnt them yet, to learn them visit an essence trader and then you can purchase them. Though remember that essence traders will only sell recipes to a certain level of ability in a level 40 server you can purchase refined products such as the refined pick etc. Hope that helps you on your travels.

[bold maple]

I hate to go all "Well this game does it that way, but Medieval Dynasty has basically the same system except that you can buy the individual recipes directly at the crafting station.