
No, you don't understand... you automatically gain the ability to make an item when you are of high enough rank. You don't actually need to "acquire" the recipe to begin with (and the game has no way of recording this anyways); that's just for your convenience.
There is simply no way to convert shards into crystals at the moment. You can try any permutation but it simply does not work. You CAN, however, convert crystals into shards... although this is a pretty useless option since crystals are considerably rarer than shards to begin with.
There is simply no way to convert shards into crystals at the moment. You can try any permutation but it simply does not work. You CAN, however, convert crystals into shards... although this is a pretty useless option since crystals are considerably rarer than shards to begin with.