Guild Wars 2

So i got those blades at exotic level, as needed for the achievement, but if i try to equip it it will ask me to choose which stats i want, which i can’t change later. If i equip them now, can i still upgrade them to Ascended later on? and if i wanted them with Ascend tier do i have to use the mystic forge before this event ends or i can do it anytime afterwards?

As I understand it, Yes, and anytime (though they have removed forge combinations in the past. I don’t see it happening with this item).

1. Right click them and select equip to equip them without choosing stats.
2. Yes, you can still upgrade them later. It even becomes account bound again,
3. The recipes are probably staying after the event.

Somewhere buried in the patch notes they mentioned that the Aetherblades have had the Spinal Blades permanently added to their drop table. As such the backpack and all related functionality they have with the Mystic Forge are likely to stay.

Mine stayed account bound even after picking stats, but I didn’t put an upgrade in the slot out of laziness. I don’t know what effect that will have.

I got the achievement even after transmuting the backpiece to my Fervid censer. (I hated the look of the metallic thing, but it had a bit better stats on exotic.)

And regarding the gift of blades recipe, should i try and get it from the npc before the event ends? Someone mentioned it to be cheaper but i’m not sure, and i don’t have craft skills so it will take me a while to get one to 500