Guild Wars 2

Big issue, not the 1st nor last time we will discuss this.

So once you use one of these they disappear. Question mark? These have such great potential, why are they so exclusive? I cant imagine very many are sold. I hypothesize that an average use of one of these would be on a rune or sigil around 10g. So in what world does 10g = 40g (the cost of 250 gems atm)?

If you guys made buying these babies cost effective (10-15 uses per), man they would sell like nobodies business. Straight up.

tl;dr

They are used for expensive infusions, not sigils or runes.
Its working as intended

Wanze.8410:

They are used for expensive infusions, not sigils or runes.
Its working as intended

No…at the current price the only use is for expensive infusions. It does work on runes and sigils, but at the current price it is stupid to do. If they were available at a cheaper price people could finally get runes and sigils out of karma, wvw gear and other non-salvagable gear. If they weren’t meant for runes and sigils then it wouldn’t work on them.

See also:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Issue-Runes-Sigils-and-Non-Salvageable-Gear/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Upgrade-Extractor-is-too-expensive

and many many more…

They are not intended as a useful item.
They were added because the playerbase demanded the item (to be able to remove runes from items that couldn’t be salvaged).
So they gave it to us.
And we stopped demanding.
Same as we demanded more uses for excess bloodstone dust (sharpening stone station + others) and extra event tokens (blade shard vendor) and an item that makes a mesmer portal (watchwork portal device).
To be clear: I don’t believe they added all these to silence our demands, just that they weren’t intended to be in the game, but we demanded them, so they were priced for their worst case scenario. It would be too good to have an upgrade extractor cost 1g because people would them to remove melandru runes from karma items, which is the exact reason a lot of items are not salvageable to begin with, so they were priced for the most expensive things that could be removed.

I only recommend using UE on sigils of generosity and infusions of +9 or higher (or a +8 with a strength rune or something that adds up to really expensive). otherwise it’s cheaper to convert gems to gold and just buy whatever you were going to extract.