Guild Wars 2

I have 2 items, the Ruby Heart and the Hero Band, that I have been trying to upgrade but nothing seems to work on either. Is there something specific that will work.
P.S. The Ruby Heart is a low level item, but I wear it in memory of a friend, but hoped a good upgrade would make it something special.

Alas, only cosmetic equipment can be “transmutated”. Rings and accessories only have a statistical value and can’t be upgraded or transformed. The only exceptions are ascended jewellery which can be infused through recipes.

So I’m afraid you’re not going to be able to upgrade that special ruby heart, which is a shame really.

Not even with gems? I thought I had at least those to play with.

I’m not quite sure about this, but I believe you can only upgrade them with gems or jewels of the same tier as your piece of equipment. As the Ruby Heart is a pretty low tier piece of equipment, I doubt you can add high tier gems to it.

I might be wrong though, I can’t really check right now.

Evans is not wrong. I think it goes: trinkets can only have a socket that is at or below the trinket’s level. they are weird that way.

Actually, the upgrade item (the gem, mark, ect.) has an equipment level minimum that it can be used on (as an upgade). Equipment below that level cannot accept those level upgrade items (if they have an upgrade slot).

I think the OP is talking about the several “special” personal story trinkets that already have increased stats to include “gem upgrades” on their basic stats and have no upgrade slot. Ascended trinkets also have “built in upgrades” and no upgrade slot (possibly an infusion slot).

In general, if a soulbound piece of equipment has an upgrade slot, upgrades that meet the equipment level requirement can be added (they will ’overwrite" any existing upgrade on the item). This upgrade process will in fact, soulbind an item to the character adding the upgrade if it was not previously soulbound.

Would be cool if we could transmute trinkets too, come to think of it. Polla is still watching you.