Upgrade Extractor is too expensive
agreed. extractor is a joke atm.
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Imo game is desperatly missing reasonable way to reuse sigils and runes. Wardrobe is great but this feature of transmutation stones is missing.
Currently the Upgrade Extractor is primarily for the super expensive infusions.
I would like to see the price come down some as well though. I have used the Extractor for Fine infusions.
Example: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Versatile_Mighty_Infusion
100 Philosopher’s Stone
50 Mystic Coin
100 Passion Flower
250 Vial of Powerful Blood
and refuses to spare the life in return for the surrender at discretion (unconditional surrender)
of a vanquished opponent.
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I think everyone tends to agree Anet overlooked this one big time (I sure hope that’s the explanation and not that they SERIOUSLY expect us to buy 6 upgrade extractors to remove runes from a set of armor that can’t be salvaged).
My suggestion is a one time purchase item that uses transmutation charges to extract upgrades.
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That’s the way that lady luck dances
I think everyone tends to agree Anet overlooked this one big time (I sure hope that’s the explanation and not that they SERIOUSLY expect us to buy 6 upgrade extractors to remove runes from a set of armor that can’t be salvaged).
My suggestion is a one time purchase item that uses transmutation charges to extract upgrades.
Agreed regarding the oversight. Disagree regarding the one time purchase, although it is the most innovative solution I’ve seen proposed so far that fits within the new system. I simply oppose it because that further diminishes the value of transmuting from the functionality it used to have if stat transfer is separate from appearance changing and it requires a feature purchase for something that did not used to require me to make a feature purchase. Maybe if said one-time item was enabled and available both through the gem store and from an in game quest?
kitten , and i was looking all day for my post, i put it in “Crafting” section by mistake.
can i transfer it to “Black lion trading” , or just make a new one there ?
Ugh, I think everyone wants this to happen with the big sigil/rune update. It’s a clear oversight to introduce the wardrobe system and reinvent runes/sigils yet not have an effective way to move them from one armor/weapon to another. I simply wish I could use transmutation crystals to move sigils/runes, and now it’s forced to use that utterly expensive extractor which frankly doesn’t appeal to any sigil/rune except for generosity sigil.
UUUUUUUGHHH.
To be honest, the best solution may be allowing the salvaging of items you cannot currently salvage, but with the following stipulations:
- Half chance of materials salvaged.
- Normal chance to remove upgrades.
- Upgrades salvaged are ACCOUNT BOUND.
This would make it less attractive to spend karma enmass to obtain salvage items and no way to directly turn the upgrades into gold via the TP. Obviously, this would allow everyone to use Karma to obtain some runes they would otherwise likely buy on the TP, but I’m not sure that would be a bad situation.
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That’s the way that lady luck dances
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Bump cos is think this is a big flipping problem. Got multiple armor sets in bank with runes that are 7g++ in them practically stuck.
Yeah.. I’m stuck with a full Melandru set in my exotics, and I’ll have to spend a huge amount if I want them moved/repurchased for my Ascended set.
Not too much skin off my nose, since I can still use my reserve Dolyak set, but still, they need a cleaner, more reasonable way to manage it.
As I pitched in another thread, A Silver-fed Upgrade Extractor would totally get my gems.
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Same here, stuck with 6 sup traveler runes in a set i can’t salvage -.-
They’re expensive for what you want to do with them because they weren’t designed with that in mind. Their purpose is actually to extract infusions off of ascended gear. Those infusions can run into the hundreds of gold so people who need to recover them can be gouged for those prices.
Anet likely never even considered that extracting runes would be a problem after changing the behavior of transmutation crystals. Thus the lack of solution to this issue.
i thought this patch meant to make it easier for players to try new builds.
Yeah, I fell for that line too. Maybe the total silence from Anet these days is a good thing. At least now they aren’t telling us one thing, and doing something else.
Bump, love to know from anet if they are working on some kind of alternative.
Easiest thing would be to make wvw things salvagable but only to return runes/sigils, not to gain ecto’s, because most of the people I know who are suffering from this issue is cos of wvw bought gear.
Personally had I known that this would be an issue in the future I would have got gear from elsewhere which is why I feel a little shafted by this change.
kitten , and i was looking all day for my post, i put it in “Crafting” section by mistake.
can i transfer it to “Black lion trading” , or just make a new one there ?
There is one there already that focuses on the effect of the various effects of unrestricting salvage restricted gear(wvw/karma) and its effects on the economy because the cost/effect ratio of the upgrade extractor is out of whack.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/extractor-overpriced/first#post3976326
edit: I would suggest finding some way to tie this issue into crafting so it stays here as well…