Guild Wars 2

I would really like to see a way to remove upgrade components from an item without destroying the item itself/transmuting the item/upgrading over the item. Maybe there could be a vendor who’d charge a fee for extracting an upgrade component, costing more depending on the level/grade.

I’d assume this is to sell expensive runes and such back when changing upgrade components?

I doubt it would happen because the destruction of either the upgrade item or the item itself is sort of part of how they balance the economy.

Actually it isn’t because I want to sell expensive runes, it’s because I hate throwing away expensive runes if I want to try a different rune set (recently destroyed 9g of runes to try different ones).

I realize the whole balancing the economy thing, and how people might exploit this system to extract runes for a profit, in which case they can implement a system that makes any extracted rune soul/accountbound, thus eliminating any impact on the economy, while still allowing people to try out different runes/sigils without throwing away gold.