Guild Wars 2

Ascended back items had much more limited selection of attribute affixes than other ascended item slots for a long time. When the magic find system was changed, items that used to boost magic find were changed so their attributes were selectable one-time. As a result, many back items had an opportunity to switch to attributes that were not previously available in that slot/rarity.

According to the wiki, the mystic forge recipes for ascended back items with magic find (Quiver of a Thousand Arrows and There with Yakkington: A Traveler’s Tale) still work, and produce ascended back items with one-time selectable attributes; however, I’m hearing that they weren’t extended to work with bloodstone dust in this patch like the other recipes were. Additionally, the Prototype Fractal Capacitor that used to have magic find is no longer sold, so even if the mystic forge recipe that upgrades it to an ascended back item (which would presumably now have selectable attributes) still works, it is effectively inaccessible.

As a result, a few select attribute combinations are currently available by several different paths, while the rest are only available by one specific (and fairly narrow) path. I suspect this may be a bug; certainly it is inconsistent.

I suggest that all these systems should be made consistent: EITHER make ascended back items with selectable attributes available via Prototype Fractal Capacitors and bloodstone dust, OR disable the recipes for Quiver of a Thousand Arrows and There with Yakkington and force everyone who currently has those items to re-select their attributes, this time from a list that only includes the 4 attribute combinations available to everyone else. (Personally I favor the former option.)

Your suggestion would benefit me, as I now need a Celestial back piece and have all of the items to make both the Quiver of a Thousand Arrows and There with Yakkington: A Traveler’s Tale, if they were forgable with dust.

But I am completely against the idea. I will simply rune fractals for another Vial of Condensed Mists Essence, because I am against “forcing” anyone to have their stats nerfed from what they need to a selection of what you want them to have simply to be mean out of your jealousy. If you want one of those items, get off your duff and run some fractals and get your Vial of Condensed Mists Essence and stop demanding negative effects of players who have already earned it simply because you cannot get it an easier way.

By that logic, why offer the bloodstone dust recipes at all? Why are some attribute combinations accessible in multiple ways while others are not? How did they decide which combinations should be easier? And why is it OK for people to get an ascended fractal capacitor with unusual stats if they bought it before the magic find patch but not OK for people to get the same thing for the same cost afterwards?

And for the record, I’ve already got plenty of mists essence for my present needs.

What combinations are the new recipes not offering that you want?

You act as if this is something new. We have several runes for example that you can only get in one particular dungeon, and others that only drop from world bosses. Did you make threads for each of them, complaining about how they are only acquired in one manner, while other runes have multiple forms of acquisition?

Beyond that, why are you concerned if you have everything you need to aqcuire what you want, already??