Guild Wars 2

So, I like running fractals quite a bit. I like the sense of progression and the challenge beating higher and higher fractal levels brings. What throws me off, however, is what to do with my excessive number of ascended rings that I don’t need. The Pristine Relics are a nice touch and all, and I’ll be using them, since I can finally get the rings I want, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m sitting on 4 ascended rings on top of the two I use that I have no use for. I can’t sell them on the TP because they’re account bound, I don’t have high level alts to send them to, and I can’t even salvage them like I could lower rarity items. Does anyone have any idea what I can do with them that’s useful other than turning them into a pittance of silver at the vendor? Also, is there any reason that we can’t salvage them? This one really confuses me, I have absolutely no idea why A-net would make them unsalvagable.

Sajuuk.5706:

Does anyone have any idea what I can do with them that’s useful other than turning them into a pittance of silver at the vendor?

Presently they are pretty much only worth 5s, which is silly. I posted in the suggestions forum that they should make it so you can salvage them for some Pristine Relics (maybe 1-3?). Would mean turning your unwanted rings —> wanted rings.

if you’ve got storage room I’d hang on to them, I bet anet finds a way to make them useful eventually, and you may be sorry if you sold a bunch for a few silver each if what elderan above suggests may happen (or something similar)

I want a chance to get vials from salvaging rings.

You should be able to toss 4 into the Mystic Toilet and have a chance to get one you actually want.

Maybe even a chance for an infused one.

elderan.2638:

Sajuuk.5706:

Does anyone have any idea what I can do with them that’s useful other than turning them into a pittance of silver at the vendor?

Presently they are pretty much only worth 5s, which is silly. I posted in the suggestions forum that they should make it so you can salvage them for some Pristine Relics (maybe 1-3?). Would mean turning your unwanted rings —> wanted rings.

Salvaging rings into pristine relics to get more rings isn’t that great of an idea to someone who already has the ring he/she wants. Each ascended ring should be salvaged into 3-5ectos and a shard+globe of the mists. I have 7 acc soulbound rings i stored on one character that i have no use for and 5 soulbound ones that are wasting storage slots, anet, find something!

Vynil.6907:

This is kind of offtopic. But i don’t wanna create new thread for this. I would really appreciate some answer from ANet team. Will there be any future changes for ascended rings? I’ve got 11 useless rings at this moment and I don’t want to sell them to shop for the joker’s price.
I have plenty suggestions what can be done with them, for example: Salvagable, Increase price for the vendors, add recipes to mystic forge ( 4 rings= 1-x RNG ascended mats (vials, globes or shards)). There is really lot of things what can be done with them. Think about it, please.

My post from another thread.
There are really tones of possibilities how can they start to be useful and not hurting the market.

ATMAvatar.5749:

I want a chance to get vials from salvaging rings.

This. Shards,Globs,Vials please…i im over 200 fractals and just have total 6x total of those.

I think they should remove the Bound on Use and stick to only Account Bound. It makes us easier to replace ring and give the old one to alts because you ought to use any ring regardless of its stats simply for the infusion. Currently I have no intention to run FotM with any of my alts although I have 6 level 80s because of this. How stupid would it be if you have to run all over again for RNG to get any ring for the infusion? I We should be able to recycle our ring while optimizing the stats for our profession.

Hologramx.6402:

I think they should remove the Bound on Use and stick to only Account Bound. It makes us easier to replace ring and give the old one to alts because you ought to use any ring regardless of its stats simply for the infusion. Currently I have no intention to run FotM with any of my alts although I have 6 level 80s because of this. How stupid would it be if you have to run all over again for RNG to get any ring for the infusion? I We should be able to recycle our ring while optimizing the stats for our profession.

This isn’t element of our discussion. They can remove soulbounds from every thing in game then.
The main thing is to find compromise and make some clever suggestion for Anet, which they can improve in the future.
Thats why I was talking about salvaging, higher npc price, mystic recipes and so on.
There is lot of things what can be done with them, but those things are frendliest for all and are “safe”.

+If they will be salvagable in the future, they should have chance to get “versatile simple infusion” back from it.

I kinda like the idea of them being account bound simply for the fact I have multiple characters at 80, 6 in all so that’s 12 rings I need to fit them all out. More in fact because I tune them for different builds, so I could concievably be requiring somewhere in the order of 18 rings.

Sajuuk.5706:

Each ascended ring should be salvaged into 3-5ectos and a shard+globe of the mists. I have 7 acc soulbound rings i stored on one character that i have no use for and 5 soulbound ones that are wasting storage slots, anet, find something!

ANet doesn’t want you making easy money, so that won’t happen. If this were ever implemented, the value of ectos would drop, especially as the bulk of the playerbase moves ever higher in fractal levels, with much better drop rates relative to the lower levels, with everyone either dumping their ectos on the TP or saving them up for themselves and buying less and less from the market. In other words, you’d lose out on the money train unless you cashed in immediately after the salvaging option was implemented.

ANet wants you to spend money, that’s why revive orbs are near-mandatory for the higher fractals.

Eli Stormstrike.8637:

Sajuuk.5706:

Each ascended ring should be salvaged into 3-5ectos and a shard+globe of the mists. I have 7 acc soulbound rings i stored on one character that i have no use for and 5 soulbound ones that are wasting storage slots, anet, find something!

ANet doesn’t want you making easy money, so that won’t happen. If this were ever implemented, the value of ectos would drop, especially as the bulk of the playerbase moves ever higher in fractal levels, with much better drop rates relative to the lower levels, with everyone either dumping their ectos on the TP or saving them up for themselves and buying less and less from the market. In other words, you’d lose out on the money train unless you cashed in immediately after the salvaging option was implemented.

ANet wants you to spend money, that’s why revive orbs are near-mandatory for the higher fractals.

Yeah, 3-5 ectos is a bit much. I’d be happy if they just salvaged for mist essence drops, and gives back your infusion of course.

At some point you don’t have a use for mist essence either.

If they salvage, they should have the standard chance to drop ectos that an exotic does, plus a vial of mist and a chance of a glob of mist.

I completely agree. At least let us throw them in the forge or break them down.

I just want to add to this, I think it is a good idea.

My suggestion would be to make 4 give you a random chance at a random infused ring in the mystic forge.

I currently have 10 in storage….