Guild Wars 2

As the title suggest I’m trying to slot an exquisite coral gem into my complete edition of the mad king book you get from putting all the pages together and it won’t accept any upgrades even though it has an open upgrade slot, is this a bug?

I hope they fix this!

You’re trying to jam a Lv.80 upgrade into a Lv.1 item.
No it’s not a bug at all, it’s just the game mechanics. You can use adorned (copper) stones though.

Any armor/trinket can only take an upgrade that is it’s level or lower. The books are level 0 so that means we’re stuck putting in the first tier of gems that don’t have a level requirement even though that book has stats that are just a hair shy of a L80 back slot item.

So this means No runes & No marks. It means you can put pebbles into them.

OP is correct. I have successfully upgraded Mad Memories (Act 1 edition) with an Exquisite Coral Jewel through transmutation, yet I cannot upgrade Mad Memories: Complete Edition or even Guild Backpacks with it at all.

xLiveLucidx.5071:

OP is correct. I have successfully upgraded Mad Memories (Act 1 edition) with an Exquisite Coral Jewel through transmutation, yet I cannot upgrade Mad Memories: Complete Edition or even Guild Backpacks with it at all.

Transformation isn’t adding an upgrade. It’s slapping a skin on an pre-existing item and upgrade.

Could you transmute it to another level 80 back slot item(is the last one from the story level 80 item?) and then put upgrades on it? Of course it would need one of the better transmutation stones…

Imaginos.3756

xLiveLucidx.5071:

OP is correct. I have successfully upgraded Mad Memories (Act 1 edition) with an Exquisite Coral Jewel through transmutation, yet I cannot upgrade Mad Memories: Complete Edition or even Guild Backpacks with it at all.

Transformation isn’t adding an upgrade. It’s slapping a skin on an pre-existing item and upgrade.

Sorry the forum won’t let me quote you for some reason.

You are correct, transmuting isn’t upgrading a slot, but that is irrelevant to the issue which is that Mad Memories verion 1 is upgradeable and Mad Memories: Complete Edition is not. It can, however be transmuted and this will bypass the issue for most players.

In my case I transmuted my story acquired backpiece to Mad Memories version 1. I then acquired Mad Memories: Complete Edition and wish to upgrade it with Exquisite Coral Jewel for my dungeon/wvw set and upgrade the Act 1 version with an Opal jewel for my magic find set. This isn’t possible because the Complete Edition can’t be upgraded and now I only have one backpiece to transmute it to and that’s the version 1 Mad Memories which I want to keep.

Here’s where THE BUG comes in. I decided to buy a guild backpack to upgrade to the Exquisite Coral Jewel and then transmute over to the Complete Edition, but not even the Guild Backpack will take an upgrade now. Something is buggy about backpieces at the moment.

Side note…
I just attempted to upgrade the green (masterwork) guild backpack with exotic, rare, masterwork, and fine upgrade components and none of them worked.

bumping this so hopefully a dev can see it.

maybe we get some special jewel in act 3 or 4?

that will only fit the book?

I have also run into this problem, and it makes me sad.

I looked it up on the wiki and it says that it’s bugged and will only accept gems without a level requirement. =/