Guild Wars 2

Hello folks! I’d like to share with you some of my thoughts about making ascended gear account-bound. When I heard this for the first time it seemed very attractive for me, but after a time I realised that this changes are practically useless. At least they are so for me. Please remember, that it is only my opinion and I’m not pretending this to be taken as gospel. At the moment I have two level 80 characters using medium armor: thief and ranger. My thief currently has knight’s ascended gear, but in view of comming updates and some other factors I decided to change it on berserker’s, which cost for me 470g (only armor). You may thougt: “Man, with this new changes you can pass your old gear to your ranger!” No I can’t. My rangrer’s buid is based on condition damage and I prefer using rampager’s stat. Since ascened gear gives only +5% benefit I suppose it is much better to wear exotic gear, but with right stats on it. My engeneer is not 80 lvl, but if he was, I would like to see him wearing rabid’s gear. Anyway my knight’s gear goes to the rubbish bin, in case I can’t even salvage this gear. That’s my personal example, but I think there are a lot of people having different builds on their characters. For example it is very possible to have support guardian and zerk warrior or zerk mesmer, healing elementalist and condition damage necromancer. The question is: What is a chance to have same build on different characters using same armor type?
I’m quite sure that this feature should be improved. May be it should be possible to change stats on ascended armor as you can do with legendary. May be this could be done not for free. For example to change stats you can forge existing ascended piece with new ascended insignia/inscription with a new stats, but not for full price again. May be you could have one-time possibility to change stats when equipping ascended items to new character, or something like that. May be ascended gear should be salvagable with a good chance getting 500 lvl crafting materials. I hope you’ve got the main idea. Please discuss and sorry for my English( it’s not my native language).