Guild Wars 2

Why? Today I got my first shiny box of Leystone gear, I was happy and kind of excited ’cause the armor looked really neat!

…then I come to find that it’s /all/ wanderer’s gear.

All of it.

It’s all pre-statted. Why is this a thing? Is this how the other armors from previous zones are? All pre-statted?

I wouldn’t know because I’ve been kinda saving up, but with my look this Leystone goes great, I was just really hoping I’d be able to choose my own stats instead of have to waste another trans charge to get a piece of gear with the stats I actually want.

I don’t know why they’d do this sort of thing, it’s frankly kind of offensive. I mean giving you gear that you get to pick the stats of has been so popular and has gone so well to this point that it just seems bad form to suddenly lock stats on gear like this, don’t you think?

Maybe it’s just me. But now I have a box of worthless armor. I’m so disappointed I’m tempted to just throw the entire thing away because it’s just that worthless to me. I know that seems rather petty of me, I won’t deny that it is, yet at this point it makes me rather unhappy with the game.

Discovering this hasn’t ruined my day or anything, just lessened my opinion of the game a little bit more. I mean do I really have to wiki /every/ single piece of BoA/BoP equipment I want just to see if I have to waste a trans charge to use the skin or if I can get it in stats I want?

It’s kind of a weird thing that the stats are so limited on it, compared to the other HoT armor prizes. They’re not worthless though, since they can be salvaged and transmutation charges can be gotten for free from daily rewards.

ArchonWing.9480:

It’s kind of a weird thing that the stats are so limited on it, compared to the other HoT armor prizes. They’re not worthless though, since they can be salvaged and transmutation charges can be gotten for free from daily rewards.

Good point. I had totally forgotten about salvaging. Wait you can salvage bound exotics? Huh. Didn’t know you could do that.

trianglecubed.3750:

ArchonWing.9480:

It’s kind of a weird thing that the stats are so limited on it, compared to the other HoT armor prizes. They’re not worthless though, since they can be salvaged and transmutation charges can be gotten for free from daily rewards.

Good point. I had totally forgotten about salvaging. Wait you can salvage bound exotics? Huh. Didn’t know you could do that.

You should be able to, as well as mystic forge them. I’m going to confirm and come back to rant if that’s not the case.

Edit: You certainly can salvage/forge

ArchonWing.9480:

trianglecubed.3750:

ArchonWing.9480:

It’s kind of a weird thing that the stats are so limited on it, compared to the other HoT armor prizes. They’re not worthless though, since they can be salvaged and transmutation charges can be gotten for free from daily rewards.

Good point. I had totally forgotten about salvaging. Wait you can salvage bound exotics? Huh. Didn’t know you could do that.

You should be able to, as well as mystic forge them. I’m going to confirm and come back to rant if that’s not the case.

Edit: You certainly can salvage/forge

The more you know! Thanks for the insight. The whole thing had gotten me kinda bummed, but you’ve helped a lot.

Doesn’t make the fact they’re pre-statted any less annoying, but hey. At least they aren’t worthless.

trianglecubed.3750:

ArchonWing.9480:

trianglecubed.3750:

ArchonWing.9480:

It’s kind of a weird thing that the stats are so limited on it, compared to the other HoT armor prizes. They’re not worthless though, since they can be salvaged and transmutation charges can be gotten for free from daily rewards.

Good point. I had totally forgotten about salvaging. Wait you can salvage bound exotics? Huh. Didn’t know you could do that.

You should be able to, as well as mystic forge them. I’m going to confirm and come back to rant if that’s not the case.

Edit: You certainly can salvage/forge

The more you know! Thanks for the insight. The whole thing had gotten me kinda bummed, but you’ve helped a lot.

Doesn’t make the fact they’re pre-statted any less annoying, but hey. At least they aren’t worthless.

Yea, it’s a strange thing to do. I wasn’t here to disagree with you but I figured you wanted to get something out of it, even if it’s just a piece of cloth.

I guess they thought armor is used for only skins; cultural armor for the most part doesn’t have functional stats, for example.

On the other hand, it doesn’t really explain why the HoT armors are inconsistent in that regards. Being exotic level, it makes little sense for them to be so stingy.

Unless they REALLY wanted you to try out wanderers??

I wonder if they’ll ever let us use yellow insignias to cheaply change stats on armor.

Though this doesn’t explain the design aspect, those who’d like to know more can look at the flags on items in the API. E.g.:

• Wanderer’s Leystone Shoulderpads only has “AccountBound” and “SoulBindOnUse”
• Rabid Winged Tunic of the Necromancer has “NoMysticForge”, “NoSalvage”, “NoSell”, “SoulbindOnAcquire”, and “SoulBindOnUse”