Actully its a reward from the quests , if you do a mission in expert you have a chance for a page ( around 50% ) you can get more if reward from daily/weekly Although master pages are far more rare than a adept page
theres no such thing as grandmaster pages , but yea its annoying that they are no trade hopefully next expansion we either get a exchange guy or they remove the no trade tag on pages
I've gotten a belt on my troub and wizard and neither of them have enough pages to make a single spell. I think it's a waste of time, personally, especially if you can't find a group to run experts with you anyhow.
Good luck getting the recipes for them though! I've got arts that I've got 20-40 pages for and no recipe...
I have a number of stacks of 10 for adepts with no recipe, and a host of Master recipe books that I don't have the pages for. Agreed it's not a huge deal, but I just don't think the drop rates were well thought out. I ran tons of experts throughout the Ethereal Event on multiple toons, none have more than 3 or 4 pages of any 1 Master. And the Expert illegible scrolls? I've seen less than 10 or so total all that time.
I have recipes! Because I was an idiot and thought that I needed 10 of the recipe books when it turns out that they and the scrolls are different things.