Guild Wars 2

I was really thinking that when the big fractal update finally hit, something would be done about these items. The whole concept still seems so unfinished with these loose ends.

Shards, globs and vials are all useless after a certain point. It only seems logical that these items be used in more ascended recipes.

Rings have been piling up in peoples banks and will continue to do so. Why are these unsalvageable when the previous bis gear could be salvaged. We all know how things get changed up, many of us would hate to vendor all our rings only to find out they can be salvaged in the future. A definitive answer on this would be nice, so we can finally just vendor them if nothing will be changed about them.

Pristine fractal relics another useless item after a certain point. Any chance these will be used in recipes or purchasing of other items in the future?

Shards are used to craft the new runes

Ayrilana.1396:

Shards are used to craft the new runes

Awesome, thank you!

Yeah, don’t rejoice: the new runes are basically toughness, condition reduction… Not really the kind of runes you need in fractals.

Yeah, definitely not my cup of tea. I’m mostly just looking for some sort of use for these items. Even if I can just craft the runes and sell them, that’s something…

The rings and pristine relics have a very practical use in Anet’s eyes. Which is taking up space in personal bank. And since they’re account bound, they cannot be placed in guild banks nor traded.

I’ve brought up the question about the rings multiple times in the past 24 hours and each time it was cleverly dodged by dev answering a question above or below mine.

They only answered question about shards, globs and vials which don’t take up any space at all.

I’m still wondering WHEN we will be able to buy accessories and amulets with Pristine Relics (oh and with daily chest too!). They introduced ascended with these, but they haven’t been updated since then! It’s really annoying…

The reason you won’t see accessories drop from daily chests and tradable for pristine is because anet forces us to play different kinds of content, i.e. to get accessories you need to do guild missions, otherwise grind for laurels and ectos, but the former is better since it’s cheaper.

Back to topic I think if we post as much as possible in this topic and make it most of the time on the top of the topics list, anet might have no choice but to give an answer.

You know what’s going to happen as soon as anet introduces the ability to salvage FOTM rings?

“I ALREADY DELETED 50 RINGS WHERE IS MY COMPENSATION”

why delete yare rings sir? they worth a whole 4 silver and 95 copper !!!!

Anet please! I can’t bring myself to vendor these rings for fear of them being useful later. A definitive answer would be great!

I finally have use for my 60 crystals of the mist now thanks anet hope they are good

We are suckers for keeping the rings which forces us to buy more bank slots. They did not think through how useless pristine relics would turn out to be. Perhaps if the rings didnt drop so frequently players would have then used them as intended.
I have 120 pristine relics, do you really think that Anet will give us other uses for them? I would be sitting on a gold mine if that was the case.

zerotwo.4731:

I have 120 pristine relics, do you really think that Anet will give us other uses for them? I would be sitting on a gold mine if that was the case.

That would depend how they implement the currency exchange. If they let you exchange your pristine relics for other ascended items (Amulets, earrings, ascended weapon components, etc.), which are of course account bound or soulbound, I do not see what the harm would be. In fact, it would make sense.

You should be able to buy ascended related gear with pristine relics from the BUY 4373.

There really is only 3 options here: either make them tradeable, make them salvageable, or increase merchant value to 20 silver

Yeah, for some reason exotics that are dropped account bound are worth more to the vendor then ascended ring drops. Bumping up the value of the ring would make sense.

Asia Skyly.7198:

zerotwo.4731:

I have 120 pristine relics, do you really think that Anet will give us other uses for them? I would be sitting on a gold mine if that was the case.

That would depend how they implement the currency exchange. If they let you exchange your pristine relics for other ascended items (Amulets, earrings, ascended weapon components, etc.), which are of course account bound or soulbound, I do not see what the harm would be. In fact, it would make sense.

You should be able to buy ascended related gear with pristine relics from the BUY 4373.

They could be used for recipes, buying fractal skins or even just converting them to regular fractal relics.

I can’t help but think something will happen with pristines and rings in the future. It just seems so unfinished as it is now.

I really hope we can salvage or Mystic Forge the rings soon. Salvaging for deldrimor steel ingots wouldn’t be bad. Making them tradeable wouldn’t either.

laharl.8435:

I can’t help but think something will happen with pristines and rings in the future. It just seems so unfinished as it is now.

Yes, yes it does. That said, there have been a terrible silence from the developers on this issue. If you are familiar with how the communication with Anet works, silence usually means: “We are doing nothing about it”.

I already vendor sold all my non-infused ascended rings (I had a whole bank-slot full of them and decided I was done with them). I only keep infused-ascended rings now (and still have enough of those to put 4 each on 8 characters with 10 still in my bank).

I would love to know if the infusions that are coming next week would at least be removable….because then I could take the infusions out of all the ones I have in my bank and combine those into higher level infusions. (10 +5’s would make 5 +6’s which would make 2 +7s with a +6 left over).

Maybe introduce some Fractal Weapon crafting that requires Shards, globs, vials, pristines, materials from salvaging ascended rings (if we actually could salvage them)

As others mentioned, got whole bank slot filled with only infused rings (sold those w/o infusions) over 100 pristined and tons of useless shards and STILL can’t get a single fractal weapon i want.

But wait, that’s what you want AN right? Screw the game as long as players are playing your game…

How come we do not get any comments on this? If there are no plans for pristine and fractal relics, there should be. The fractal economy is in shambles (What Economy)?

Asia Skyly.7198:

How come we do not get any comments on this? If there are no plans for pristine and fractal relics, there should be. The fractal economy is in shambles (What Economy)?

I think by the time they got fractals out the door most of the hardcore players had left. They couldn’t afford to spend more time/resources on a game mode that only a small % of the population plays so it basically got left unfinished.