Guild Wars 2

I search in most of the Thread and saw this same question several times. But i didn’t found an official answer about it yet. So i start this thread hoping for a official answer from Anthony Ordon. If he already did, then can someone link me his answer.

I have my back item and 2 rings infused, so in the next update the natural +5 AR will be replace by a Agony Resistance infusion slot with a +5 AR infusion already inside. Now if i’m unlucky and only got +1 AF infusion each time i do a Fractal, after 16 fractal i will be able to craft another +5 AR infusion. Now can I use the +5 AR infusion that i already have in my Item to combine them and get a +6 AR infusion.

Or do I need to do 16 more fractal to craft another +5 AR infusion, combine it with the other one i crafted to get a +6 AR infusion and then replace the +5AR i have in my item by the new +6 AR, destroying my initial +5AR in the process.

Because if this is the case player will to choose between two bad choice. Either don’t use your AR infusion and simply stack them up until you can craft a really high AR infusion and then use this AR infusion on your item, or you upgrade your items as soon as you can, but then you gonna need A LOT LOT LOT LOT more AR infusion to get the same results.

The method of upgrading AR infusions is stated to be by using Artificer, which likely means at a crafting station using raw items. Additionally, the current implementation of upgrades is that you can’t freely remove them from items to do this. I agree that this is a bad way for things to be – ideally you’d be able to drop a +6 infusion an an item that already has a +6 infusion, spend one reagent and the item’s infuson would upgrade to +7 as if upgraded via the artificer recipe.

There are claims of a datamined Upgrade Extractor, and above a certain threshold of infusion upgrades, it would be cheaper to use that than to craft a new one. Below that threshold, the assumption can be made you’d just have to destroy the old infusion because it’d be cheaper to craft a new one.