Guild Wars 2

i have over 100 basic transmutation stones that i will never use (not even on my non 80s); i would love to see some kind of mystic forge recipe to convert a few of these into fine transmution stones
-example-
10/15/25 basic transmutation stones
+ 1 mystic stone(50 gems; 250 gems for 5)
+ 10 piles of incandescent dust
+ 1 pile of crystalline dust
= 5 fine transmutation stones (200 gems for 5)

Why would one ingrediant. Mystic stones cost as many gems as you can spend on just buying 5 fine transmutation stones without throwing away all the other ingrediants. I do like the idea of turning basics into fines in the MF, but the recipe has to be inline with the small gem cost of just buying a 5 stack in the gemstore. Nevermind I misread that, but it still needs to be a bit less I think.

I guess it depends on how many basic stones are required. But yea, you got my vote.

I think it’s quite a good idea to be able to make fine transmutation stones using the mystic forge. I have a lot laying around that I wouldn’t mind being able to transform to fine

DeTechTive.9251:

Why would one ingrediant. Mystic stones cost as many gems as you can spend on just buying 5 fine transmutation stones without throwing away all the other ingrediants. I do like the idea of turning basics into fines in the MF, but the recipe has to be inline with the small gem cost of just buying a 5 stack in the gemstore. Nevermind I misread that, but it still needs to be a bit less I think.

I guess it depends on how many basic stones are required. But yea, you got my vote.

yeh; it needs to be balanced so that gemwise its still better to buy fine stones than basic (and then ‘upgrade’ them) but still have some gem cost for those who have leftover basic stones from either the gem store or map completion (or chests… though i havent opened on in ages; and cant recall if they drop them)

I’m sitting on almost 600 basic transmutation stones and have 40+ fine ones. There should be something that can be done with these stones. All of my characters are level 80, I will never use a basic stone again.

I’m all for something to be done with the basic stones. I do find it funny, though, that every time I see this suggestion pop up it’s by someone who has less than half of the amount of stones I have accumulated. Eris is the first person I’ve seen post with more than I have. :P

Basic Transmutation Stones share the same problem as many things in this game. There is no point in investing in something that will be obsolete by the time you reach lvl 80. Minor and Major Runes are an other example of this. You really don’t need to care about runes until you are 80 so you’d rather save your money for Superiors.
This is also the reason why I don’t craft. Because this aspect of the game basically failed on the promise that we wouldn’t need to craft hundreds of worthless items to finally be able to get to the useful ones.

So it’s not a problem exclusive to transmutation stones but I too would welcome anything that could change my stack of Basics into something useful

I will be praying to Lyssa and hoping they will read and add this.

Tauril.8504:

Basic Transmutation Stones share the same problem as many things in this game. There is no point in investing in something that will be obsolete by the time you reach lvl 80. Minor and Major Runes are an other example of this. You really don’t need to care about runes until you are 80 so you’d rather save your money for Superiors.
This is also the reason why I don’t craft. Because this aspect of the game basically failed on the promise that we wouldn’t need to craft hundreds of worthless items to finally be able to get to the useful ones.

So it’s not a problem exclusive to transmutation stones but I too would welcome anything that could change my stack of Basics into something useful

I would have do disagree with you on the fact that crafting is something that becomes useless when you get to 80. With crafting you can create all sorts of gear for you alts and a lot of the crafted skins on the way to 80 have a nice and unique feel to them. It is very helpful!

Now about the stones.. I have been wanting something like this for awhile too. Sure I may use a stone here or there on the way to getting more alts to 80 but I have accumulated WAY more than I will ever need. With a fair exchange rate at the forge you will find a lot of happy customers =)

Tauril.8504:

Basic Transmutation Stones share the same problem as many things in this game. There is no point in investing in something that will be obsolete by the time you reach lvl 80. Minor and Major Runes are an other example of this. You really don’t need to care about runes until you are 80 so you’d rather save your money for Superiors.
This is also the reason why I don’t craft. Because this aspect of the game basically failed on the promise that we wouldn’t need to craft hundreds of worthless items to finally be able to get to the useful ones.

So it’s not a problem exclusive to transmutation stones but I too would welcome anything that could change my stack of Basics into something useful

not quite; i regularly throw my minor/major runes/sigils into the mystic forge, obtained quite a few superiors as a result

Lane.3410:

I’m all for something to be done with the basic stones. I do find it funny, though, that every time I see this suggestion pop up it’s by someone who has less than half of the amount of stones I have accumulated. Eris is the first person I’ve seen post with more than I have. :P

i had more; but i used them on my first three characters (after which i realised there was little point and id just try to rush the rest to 80)

Storm of the Ages.9076:

I would have do disagree with you on the fact that crafting is something that becomes useless when you get to 80. With crafting you can create all sorts of gear for you alts and a lot of the crafted skins on the way to 80 have a nice and unique feel to them. It is very helpful!

It may be just me but my alts really don’t need anything else than the occasional green loot here and there. And considering how few demand there is for non-max lvl gear on the trading post I think I’m not the only one who’s not in desperate need of good gear while walking the path to 80.
As for the skins, sure I may want some of the crafting skins, but that’s something I’ll only truly care about when I reach 80. I just need one cheap “copy” of the skin to store for when I’ll finally transmute it.

As for putting runes into the Mystic Forge. It’s true… but that’s more of a quick fix from the devs than a proof of good design imo.

Anyway, that’s not the point… a ‘quick fix’ like that of the runes for transmutation stones would be enough.