Guild Wars 2

The last couple of days I have heard plenty of people saying that the amount of Ectos needed for upgrading your Backpiece each time is being reduced from 250 to 50. So instead of needing 500 you would only need 100 in total to upgrade your Fractal Backpiece to the maximum, aka the glowing one.

I am almost at the point of having enough Fractal Tokens and Ectos to do this, probrably in the next day or two after putting in a ton of hours and effort, same as a couple of friends. It was rumored the cost will be reduced in a couple of weeks which means if this is true I would rather hold of until then because I would waste a hell of a lot of my time and money otherwise. Plus I am in need of 250 more ectos now for my Legendary which is almost farmed, just saving for the precursor now and a handful more T6 mats.

I would really, really be grateful if anyone could confirm if the cost is being reduced and any ETA if this is true. As I said I would be very sad if this happened without much warning.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help

No. There seems to be a mixup.

Crafting an Ascended (non-Infused) backpiece takes 50 Ectos in the Mystic Forge.

Upgrading an Ascended backpiece (Crafted or Capacitor) to Infused (+5 AR natively, for up to a total of +10 AR on a single item) takes the 250 ectos.

Never heard of the mat cost being reduced though, and kinda doubt it.

I keep hearing ‘rumors’ of this rumor.

I have never seen anything that would even lend any credibility to it though.

Could it happen? Sure. But I have never seen anything that suggests it might happen.

Okay, thanks for your replies I dont mind if it does get reduced or not but wouldnt like to spend the 250 ectos to have it reduced a week or two later in the next update

If you are in no hurry, just wait until the next update in a couple weeks to see. If it doesn’t come then, spend your ectos.