Guild Wars 2

Currently GW2 still has a number of restrictions in place that were probably originally intended to protect the economy but now seem terribly out of place.

What I mean by this is:

1. Runes tied to dungeons (like Runes of the Forge) should be freely tradable and no longer soulbound on purchase.

2. 4 Superior Runes should be able to combine to another random rune, just like other items.

3. Gear purchased for Karma should be salvageable. It would finally provide an effective karma drain and help balance out the economy (Linen anyone?)

4. Remove the 2 crafting skills/character limit or just make crafting skills account-bound, rather than character bound.

There were a few others I thought of but can’t remember.

1. Sure why not.
2. Never noticed you can’t, but sure why not!
3. You can already combine them in the Forge and salvage. I tend to do this with light armor around the Linen level, not as profitable as it used to be (about a gold for 10k Karma) but still decent. (I mean, what else?) I think if they’d suddently make the gear salvageble the market would implode a little.
4. My levels! In all seriousness, I personally think if they enjoy their system of being able to level through crafting this wouldn’t be an option. But they could always remove the fee for swapping, I don’t see a big issue with that, most people just use alts now anyway.

My own:
5. Time-gates I dislike you! But I fully understand they want to avoid inflation and things like CoF p1-farm. It takes forever to get Quartz Crystals though, for some puny Celestial Armor of exotic quality.

I take it there was a way before the patch to extract the superior sigil/rune from karma and dungeon items that isn’t possible anymore with the changes done for the wardrobe.

There is a faction on the forums crying for more rewards that are specifically tied to certain activities so the wealthy just can’t buy those rewards. That’s why dungeon token and karma bought items have those limitations. That’s also why ascended items are account or character bound. Possession should indicate participation.

Behellagh.1468:

I take it there was a way before the patch to extract the superior sigil/rune from karma and dungeon items that isn’t possible anymore with the changes done for the wardrobe.

There is a faction on the forums crying for more rewards that are specifically tied to certain activities so the wealthy just can’t buy those rewards. That’s why dungeon token and karma bought items have those limitations. That’s also why ascended items are account or character bound. Possession should indicate participation.

correction. dungeon token gear has no restriction whatsoever.

You couldn’t extract them, but you could transmute them onto another set of armor (different looks or stats).

Brother Grimm.5176:

You couldn’t extract them, but you could transmute them onto another set of armor (different looks or stats).

Moving is a form of extraction. So the problem is you use to be able to buy exotic karma item, assuming you have a lot of karma, and move the rune/sigil onto a different exotic with different stats. You didn’t care about the skin or the stats of the exotic karma item, but it was a “cheap” way to get the rune/sigil.

Behellagh.1468:

Brother Grimm.5176:

You couldn’t extract them, but you could transmute them onto another set of armor (different looks or stats).

Moving is a form of extraction. So the problem is you use to be able to buy exotic karma item, assuming you have a lot of karma, and move the rune/sigil onto a different exotic with different stats. You didn’t care about the skin or the stats of the exotic karma item, but it was a “cheap” way to get the rune/sigil.

The problem with this, is that some of us bought the Karma gear for stats, and not the runes. Then we socketed our own runes (divinity, perplexity) that we could before move to a new stat combo.

But because Karma armor isnt salvagable and the old transmutation stones are removed. If I want to move my perplexity from Rabid to Rampager I cannot. I am out 48g from having to buy new Perplexity runes.

When it HAS been possible to move them before the patch and for over a year. Now suddenly, a functionality always there is being taken away. With a new alternative being twice as expensive as the most expensive runes in game.

We’re being bullied into either trashing our runes, or being overcharged (250 gems extractor vs 50 per transmute stone)[/quote] or trashing our runes.

A 250 gem extractor is less then 25g. In the case of your 48g rune this seems to be the cheaper alternative.

The devs may have always frowned upon separating item stats from runes/sigils in karma items (giving them a open slot) and simply turned a blind eye so they could still be skinned using the old transmutation method.

This may be a way to prevent players from creating items more powerful than the devs planned for. Maybe the old method was bugged and you shouldn’t have been able to create franken-items?

Behellagh.1468:

A 250 gem extractor is less then 25g. In the case of your 48g rune this seems to be the cheaper alternative.

It’s 6 runes multiplied by 8g each.

Sorry, thought you meant a single rune was now 48g. I’m aware there had been price spikes on some so I erred thinking that was the current price for one.

I agree that something needs to be done about this cause its not only runes that r affected but sigils, and upgrades from trinkets too. 250 gems to extract 1 upgrade is far from satisfactory imo. Players would be spending up to a total of 4,750 gems just to transfer their upgrades onto a new piece of armor and not all of us have access to our parent’s plastic to help us through the game.

You can use it once and you have 7 pieces of armor to use it on… 250gems each at 25g is around 175g(150g without aqua) to get all your runes back… This item is so overpriced it’s pathetic, it should just be a regular mob drop. I mean who in their right mind would buy something that expensive to use on something that is much cheaper usually? 3 of them cost $10 !! and that doesn’t cover a whole set of armor and really, who would use them on non-ascended already transmuted items?

Restrictions huh?
Soulbinding: Your house is account bound, your car is soulbound. How happy would you be if you couldn’t sell those eventually and get better ones?
Time-gating: “I’m sorry sir, you can only buy Lego piece today”
Weight Class: “I’m sorry sir, you can’t wear those jeans, here try these pajamas instead”
Cultural armor: “Whoa there white guy, no kimono for you!” Racist!

HOLY KITTEN! I had no clue it was like this for WvW Armor too. Karma armor is one thing but, WvW too. I have at least 3 characters with Traveler’s and Bloodlust Sigils that are locked!!! Here I’ve been busting my hump to build Ascended gear, now I have to buy all the runes and sigils too????

Seriously, this is completely rage inducing. I’d uninstall before I buy a minimum of $70 worth of upgrade extractors. Just to lock up the same sigils and runes again??? This is now the most alt unfriendly system in game. At the very least, Black Lion Salvage kits should work on this armor and Ascended gear too. Especially when a lot of the changing is only required because the dev’s changed runes and sigils.