Guild Wars 2

Transmutation Stones are terribly lacking in usefulness.

Back when I leveled to 80, you had about 40~50% of the World Completion if all you did was hearts and exploration.

Completing a map gives you Transmutation Stones, which won’t be anymore useful at all for that character.
So you’re only really going to use Transmutation Stones for:

1. During your leveling in the 40~50% of the world.
- But if it’s your first character, chances are you won’t have access to good looking gear you’d like to transmute.

2. For your alts.
- But again, chances you have a good looking gear for this character are slim since they cost gold/time and you either level your new character, or farm the gear you want for your new character.
- If you do farm, chances the gear has better stats than anything your new character can use are high. So you’d be really wasting a good level 70+ gear (the ones with more variety in style) to use in a low level gear, and then re-acquiring the same gear for the stats/rarity if you want. Using the Transmutation Stone would only be a loss in this case.

So I’d like to leave a simple suggestion of putting a new Mystic Forge recipe that converts a bunch (can even be some weird ratio) of Transmutation Stones into Transmutation Crystals or something else that’d be actually useful for us.

It’s kinda frustrating to complete the world to get something with so little use like this.

It would also help free some bank space since this is one of the items which I do “eh, it’s useless but there’s a remote chance it’ll be useful in the future so I’m keeping it… even though it’s been a year and it’s still here getting dust”

Thank you for reading.

I agree, it’s something that was and still is bothering me.
I’ve got 79 stones sitting in my bank that will probably never get used.

A mystic forge recipe would help solve this annoying issue.
Maybe:
5 transmutation stone + 1 mystic forge stone => 1 Transmutation crystal

Or something like that, I’ll leave it to Anet to find a balanced recipe.