Guild Wars 2

Hi, yesterady I did craft the Hronk’s Metal Breather for my Rev and now I’m trying to reset the stats to viper in the Mystic Forge with the usual recipe (the armor piece + 5 ectos + Anthology of Heroes + Viper Intrincate Gossamer Insignia), but I can’t!

The mystic Forge lets me to insert the ectos and the Anthology, but then when I pick either the breather or the insignia the other one fades to grey and turns out ineligible.

Plese, fix this mess ArenaNet.

Edit: also, I recently got the recipe for the Shadow of Grenth backpack, which I want to craft and then reset in stats to berserker, would it work or is also bugged? I want to known if before wasting near to 200 gold coins in a useless ascended piece.

^ Re-Edit: forget that last one, Shadow of Grenth stats are selectable; still have the problem with the Hron’s Metal Breather!

As far as I know, you aren’t able to change aquabreathers to HoT stats atm. Personally I use a Sinister one that I was able to change to.
It is a known bug though iirc, I thought at least it was on their known issue tracker.

Breather stats have never been changeable. Underwater combat in general has fallen to the bottom of Anet’s priority list, so I doubt we’ll see any changes in the near/medium term unfortunately.

onevstheworld.2419:

Breather stats have never been changeable. Underwater combat in general has fallen to the bottom of Anet’s priority list, so I doubt we’ll see any changes in the near/medium term unfortunately.

Really I don’t care too much about underwater being meaningless for ANet (i.e.: no new aquatic weapon skins, no new underwater content, etc.). But I do care about a BUG wasting my money: Hronk’s Breather is listed in the armorsmith station as a helm kind of armor so I SHOULD be able to reset properly those stats.

Otherwise R E M O V E that content from the game to prevent the players to waste our hard earned GOLD and T I M E in useless items.

In my opinion, ANet should just eliminate aquatic breathers from the game (and give everyone who owns an ascended one the option to choose a helm with the stats of their choice).

• Despite the name, they aren’t needed to breathe underwater (and never have been in the Live game).
• They aren’t needed for the only content that strictly requires them, Fractals, since the highest fractal level, 76, requires only 107 AR, allowing nearly everyone enough AR without the breather.
• They force us to buy an additional 7th rune to maintain the (6) bonus on superior runes.

Suggestion: make when underwater keep using stats, runes, infusions from land set.
Now Eliminate infusion slot from aqua breather and trident.
Eliminate upgrade slot from aqua breather. Add new slot called flux slot.
Flux can only be added to item with flux slot. So only aqua breather will have it.
Flux will have one simple effect related to underwater combat.
Flux won’t have tiers like minor, major or superior cuz no need.
Stats from aqua breather and its upgrade are bonus and tigger only underwater.