Guild Wars 2

REASON (if you don’t want to read it go to AN IDEA section)
I spend hours on gearing them with exotics, adjusting their look so they look really awesome. It took like 50 transmutation crystals to do it or maybe more and now…
Wait you can buy more of them cause soon you will have to redo all armors and weapons look cause there is a new tier.
For someone with 1-2 characters it’s not really a big deal, but I play at least 6 of my 9 lvl 80 characters and making them to the top level as they were is just too painful. You can say all you want that Ascended are only a little better than exotics but let’s face it someone already proven that with only trinkets and weapons one can have 13% more dmg and that is HUGE difference. So for a difficulty content you can only have one character to play it? It really sucks…
Vision of getting another 50 transmutation crystals also makes me mad cause I spend all those money so I would not have to change that again and now I don’t really know if it’s worth doing that again. You just made all my effort in playing preparing characters so… pointless. It sucks fun out of the game and even if the armors will come next year as you said I hesitate to finish armor on my last character (purely blue thief). It feels like I’m throwing money out on each transmutation and I don’t like the feeling.

AN IDEA: Maybe you can make it so after crafting 4-6 ascended items of 1 type (like weapons) you can craft go into recrafting system. It would be kind of ALT support system.
It would work like this: place your exotic (it’s soulbound so it will be in the bank and it will allow use it as an component), since it so you would get soulbound ascended item bound to the previous character (if hard to make Aound to account) and with look of the exotic, with the same stat combo as recrafted item but it would be ascended.
Recrafting should cost like 20% of mats at most and it should require making few (4-6) full ascended items so it wouldn’t be a cheap way for people without alts.