Guild Wars 2

I believe this game would benefit from a sigil/rune exchanger NPC to help those that have stacks of minor or even major quality.

Yes some of these you can purchase by dungeon NPC or various other NPCs littered throughout the map, but we do have some that are only obtainable via drops/chest.

The NPC could take in a fixed number of minor for a major. If the developers want to also include a fixed amount for majors to superior that would be interesting.

This would impact the game in many ways and benefit players who:
-Have multiple stacks in their storage they aren’t using
-Those who go adventuring and will now have another reason not to throw away the blues and greens they accumulate.
-Want to have more opportunities in the Trading Post. Could you imagine the revenue generated for them when they sell or buy all these?!

There are downsides as well, but that’s the trade off for everything here. We will have a glut of Superior or Major quality runes/Sigils but that would allow the minor qualities to grow in value. The best way to get them? Go kill mobs or explore jump puzzles of course!

With the new blog talking about ways to make blues and greens worth it again via increased chances of getting magic find this would also help increase their value.

If we only allow the ones that can’t be bought via dungeon or other NPCs into this list that at least gives players a shot at earning all of them, even if it is a round a bout fashion.

There are recipies for most sets and a lot can be gotten from dugions. If exotics can be put in forge it will balance out a lot of the prices. kitten runes and sigiles are around the corner.

My suggestion is more focused on those you cannot purchase, create, or acquire by Dungeon/NPCs/recipes.

Trading in for specific runes would undermine the existing mystic forge system, which is already an established gambling ecosystem that consumes major runes in large amounts and keeps them in demand on the trading post.

Atlas.9704:

My suggestion is more focused on those you cannot purchase, create, or acquire by Dungeon/NPCs/recipes.

That’s the point; to make it harder to get the harder to get runes without the mystic forge or the tp. Don’t get me wrong, if the price on those runes drop (or we get a recipe at some point) I’d be happy, but I don’t see it happening.

My suggestion: if you want to gamble use the mystic forge and hope you get the rune you want or one you can sell to buy the one you want, or just sell all of them to afford the one you want (most major runes sell for ~4s so it does take a lot).