Guild Wars 2

Pretty simple idea. I have over a hundred Transmutation Stones. I have 4 Transmutation Crystals. I need 2 more to transmute my exotic crafted armor (which I do not like the look of) to a different crafted set (which I do).

The gem store only sells crystals in bunches. I’d end up with extra, and presumably fall into a loop of not quite enough to too many.

Now, I don’t mind saving up gold and just purchasing the gems. I don’t mind just throwing a few bucks at the game. This is not what this is about.

I would like another option to get the crystals, that is still representative of the time and effort put into the game.

How about a mystic forge recipe that converts stacks of stones into a small number of crystals? How many stones should it take per crystal? do you need other components, like mystic forge stones or obsidian shards? It would make sense for everything involved to be account bound given the nature of the result, yes?

Thoughts? Who else would take advantage of this?

I may have not noticed, but I thought both were called “stones”, just one is “fine” (L80) and the other isn’t. Anywho…

I have ~200 regular stones and only 1 fine stone left. Pretty much all I’ve bought (aside from bank slots) are these fine transmutation stones, and I doubt I’m the only one. This is undoubtedly a good money source for Arenanet since this game is driven by aesthetics.

To be honest, I don’t think they should allow upgrading the regular ones. The fine stones not so out-of-reach expensive that only the elite can get them. I have 5 lvl 80 characters, all with transmuted armor (some with 2 or more sets), and never really had a huge problem getting the stones. Mind you, I don’t farm CoF, Fractals, etc. All I do is a few hours of Orr farming each week and camp event bosses.

If you really believe there should be some way of upgrading from regular to fine, the ratio should be something along the lines of 250 regular stones + forge stone or some other relatively cheap junk = 5-15 fine stones. Not to mention that this will lead people to begin to ask to upgrade the regular black lion trading post consumable to the permanent one, and so on and so forth.

Once you can upgrade between items in the gemstore, especially highly used ones like these, it’s unlikely it’ll stop at just this one.

I would love a recipe to turn reg trans. stones into fine ones.