Guild Wars 2

Wondering if there has been any news about this being addressed?

I have strength runes on celestial asc gear and want to change it to soldiers. Not willing to drop the strength runes if this change will be implemented at some point soon.

That would render the gem store item useless. Which is something they don’t want to do.

Spend money! buy upgrade extractors!

If they would just drop the price on those to something more reasonable then it would be a non-issue.

Not going to happen since the mystic forge destroys your item and makes a new one

A new set of strength runes is still cheaper than the cost of an extractor.

Working as intended, so unlikely that there will be any news about it.

Upgrades are kind of meant to be consumable, they need a sink, and that’s it right there.
If they released a perm upgrade extractor would I buy it?
Maybe.
But the upgrade extractor is really only intended for super expensive infusions, given its price tag, not every day use.

This would make the new legendary gear less appealing, and less unique. I would assume it won’t be changing.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge#Ascended_equipment_stat_change

GrandHaven.1052:

Wondering if there has been any news about this being addressed?

I have strength runes on celestial asc gear and want to change it to soldiers. Not willing to drop the strength runes if this change will be implemented at some point soon.

Soon? Almost certainly not.

The current method of changing stats uses the mystic forge, which always destroys the items you toss into it. They’d have to overhaul the mechanic or introduce a new one and with HoT on the way, I can’t imagine that would happen soon. Additional, indirect evidence comes from the fact that ANet has not taken the opportunity to hint about a future alternative (even as they have taken the time to comment about the current one).

Will they someday introduce a method to make it easier to recover upgrades? Again, the indirect evidence suggests they won’t. This was an issue when the wardrobe was introduced and they have had several opportunities to address it in various ways.

I further theorize that they are happy with the status quo in which “meta” runes/sigils remain pricey.

My personal preference is that they should make it easier to change PvE & WvW stats, so that people are more likely to experiment. I just don’t think it’s likely for economic in-game and financial out-of-game reasons.