Not sure if I should ask this now or leave for next week’s QA…
The last two epic recipes I’ve gotten (Pinterest and the Challenge Shop) have been for slots where I already had the epic gear; that hadn’t happened to me before, so I’d assumed there was duplicate protection built into the recipe system. Has that protection changed, or was this a glitch?
To be clear, it’s totally your/the team’s prerogative if you’ve changed the assignment system; I just don’t know if it happened in error or not, since it’s different from how things have gone in the past. Thanks!
Well, recipes aren't gear. They are just a method for getting gear if you have the crafting materials to hand.
There is weighting to try and give you a recipe for a piece of gear you don't already own as a priority over the ones that you do own.
But you do have to get a recipe for every piece of gear in the game, so once you start getting closer to owning all the recipes, you're more likely to see the recipes for items you've already earned from opening chests or completing the gear upgrade missions.