Guild Wars 2

I like to use many different stat sets on my characters so I think it would be cool if one could merge 2 same ascended armor pieces with 2 different stats so that it gets the appearance of 1 and selectable stats of the 2 and after you merge it again you could select from the 3 stat combinations and so on just like with legendary weapons.

This way you could collect all of the stat combinations into one armor set and the same thing would go with runes, you consume one rune per piece of armor to unlock it ultimately giving us the “legendary” armor.

This would make it possible to switch between stats and try out different things without punishing the player from doing so as for now, if you buy a rune that you don’t find useful it may be 10+ gold wasted per rune or if you make an ascended piece not suitable, you can save it for other builds without all the banking mess.

Transmute stones would work as normal, just adding the look to the whole pack of stats and runes.