the recipe packs can no longer be purchased however anyone who already had the recipes still does. as above they are completely empty orange shells and they also require valor 60 to equip, so just keep an eye on gtn/ask a friendly synthweaver and you can still have the BM looks

Quick clarification, since I am a returning noob who before leaving got himself stuck on the war leader train, do you guys run the vindi or war leader LS? I assume you also still run war leader shield over vindi generator?

its a shame that you are locked on a predefined upgrade path from BM to WH, would have been better if the piece needed was just "battlemaster chest piece" rather than the specific archetype. The prospect of having to regrind an entire BM set and some bits of WH probably means ill just end up retiring the jug