Guild Wars 2

We have various ways to acquire ascended gear; most of which is via crafting, laurels & grindy PvE but I am baffled there is no way to craft trinkets and for the latter part – 500 jeweller is non-existent and this irritates me for a game that already implements a working crafting system.

Why is this? What would be the flaws with letting us craft trinkets instead of grinding through PvE content of which we might not want to do or waste A LOT of laurels just to purchase ONE accessory?

That is very time-gated and unpleasant. I have my crafting materials ready and if 500 Jeweller existed I could merrily craft myself the trinkets I need and thereafter for any other alts I need ascended trinkets for.

Not to mention the absolutely useless, stat-wise, rings I have acquired throughout my time spent playing this game I would love to be able to stat-swap those. That is another question – why can’t we stat-swap ascended trinkets to ones we actually want?

The closest thing to trinket “crafting” is the amulet, Vial of salt, and even that has a minute stat-selection.

It’s been years and I’m really annoyed this option isn’t available.

Please keep discussion civil.

EDIT: Grammar fix.

1. buy gems
2. convert to gold
3. buy mats
4. level crafting
5. full set ascended trinkets!

That’s why. Also why you need time gated mats and laurels and karma to buy recipes for ascended weapons and armor.

When/If they implement Jeweler 500, I hope they find something novel to do with it, like letting people craft things similar to Oontz’s necklaces. Just making the items you can get from Laurel vendors and elsewhere would seem pretty lame to me, after they’ve been available for so long already.

Of course, the recipes would probably be so insanely expensive (scribe, Winter’s Presence) that it would be hard to craft much. People love aesthetics, though, so there would probably still be interest.

Forge-swapping rings/amulets/accessories would be nice. I know more than a few people have picked up duplicates without realizing what “unique” means with regards to ascended gear, and it’s lame to get a super-rare drop you don’t really like, but can’t sell.