Guild Wars 2

One of my users brought to my attention that stats were missing on certain items and I pinpointed it to how the data is being presented for ascended items (in this particular case, trinkets):

https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/items/37109

I noticed that a portion of the stats are thrown into infix upgrades rather than being added to the attributes pool and have to ask why is this so?

Why not just join the two into the attributes fields?

I think i know where that comes from.
Once up on a time, loooong ago. Ascended trinkets had double stats. One set was the base stats like any item. and the other set was the stats of the gem on it. only because ascended items were (at the time) not intended to be salvagable. the double stats caused confusion in players.
So then A-net changed it so it added up the stats and showed it as just one set of stats.
However, i would not be surpriced that on back end, its still treated as two sets of stats.

The weird split stats are in the API since day one of /v1/item_details.json.

DBZVelena.5186:

I think i know where that comes from.
Once up on a time, loooong ago. Ascended trinkets had double stats. One set was the base stats like any item. and the other set was the stats of the gem on it. only because ascended items were (at the time) not intended to be salvagable. the double stats caused confusion in players.
So then A-net changed it so it added up the stats and showed it as just one set of stats.
However, i would not be surpriced that on back end, its still treated as two sets of stats.

This would be why. Ascended trinkets have two stat prefixes, often the two are the same, but not always (for example there is no Valkyrie/Valkyrie, only Valkyrie/Berserker).

Originally the stats for each prefix were shown separately, but later they combined it in the display to simplify the display.