Guild Wars 2

I’m extremely concerned about the upcoming MF changes. Some people have been saying the stats of current Explorer’s gear will simply change and others have been saying that people will be able to salvage to get account consumables.
However, I have a considerable issue with the salvaging part.
I spent ~30 gold on the Aetherblade skin to apply to my MF gear, far before any hint of MF changes had cropped up in that blog post. If we are forced to salvage, I will lose this skin that I worked hard to get.

This post is mainly to call attention to this problem, as I hadn’t seen anyone address it prior to now. Aetherblade skins are expensive, but what if someone had bought cultural t3? Or some other expensive skin?

My suggestion is this: if the devs are planning a salvage method here, find some way to salvage these expensive skins intact? Or, revert my MF gear to its original skin and refund the Aetherblade skin?
I accept that none of these suggestions will likely be taken, but I hope that a dev does see this and notes that these changes could mean the loss of tons of gold to people who adore the cosmetics of the game and work hard to look good regardless of the gear’s purpose.

Thank you for reading.

Why not just transmute them onto new armor with different stats? If someone can afford expensive skins, it shouldn’t be an issue to retransmute.

This would be viable, except that then by transmuting it, I will miss out on the MF account consumables that you get. Also, that would be 6 transmutation crystals + the cost of another full exotic set of a stat I either have or do not need. This isn’t actually a question of “you bought it so you have enough gold to spend more” since I don’t have 30g to spend on another Aetherblade skin. Is it fair to punish players who bought these things prior to MF changes being hinted at?