Guild Wars 2

With the announcement of legendary armor there have been a lot of threads made with suggestions in regards to switching runes/sigils like having the option to add runes to the gear and having the choice of switching them at will like the stats.
My suggestion for this would be to make a new version of the upgrade extractor currently on the gem store to one that has unlimited charges in lieu of single use. I know if there was a permanent version on the gem store I would buy it (and it would be easy for the devs to make because they already have the single use one to base it on)

The thing to consider though, is why would Anet hinder their income by introducing a permanent version of an item that is also found as a consumable on the gem store? If a permanent version were introduced, no one would ever buy the consumable version again, rendering any income from that completely moot.

That would be like adding an infinite transmutation charge to the gem store, or retrospectively like adding consumable basic salvage kits to the gem store (when there is an infinite copper-fed salvage kit readily available).

However, I agree that this item should be added, but just in a different way – perhaps comparable to the permanent Hair-Stylist (and the others) that are very rare drops from Black Lion Chests. In that case, Anet would be more likely to receive a higher income from chest key purchases, and players would be pleased that an infinite version of the item was now available in-game (albeit rare).

Zalladi, you forget one thing. A consumable has to sell, to be profitable for Anet. I’m almost absolutely certain that upgrade extractor is almost never bought. Only for huge agony resistance updates (+10 and higher) is might be outcome. Anything else, just paying the gold for new rune (yes even 10g) is cheaper in the end. Wich is kinda stupid.

The bigger problem with the item suggest is the ‘rune market’. Now it doesnt crash cause of the continous demand of high end runes. And the cheap runes go slightly up cause of mystic forge attempts for the best runes. This keeps the market alive. An item like op suggest would kill that. There has to be ways to ‘consume the rune’, but also change it on the fly, or something. Like once a year you pay for a rune, consume it, then it’s added 1 year to your legendary armor as choice. Just a thought.

With the price of runes it’s easier just to overwrite the runes and take the loss than buying an extractor with gold to gem conversion. Due to this i’ve never to this day bought one because if i wanted to switch runes on gear i’d have to buy six of them for the full set. They can still keep the single use one on the gem store. My point was peoples suggestions for runes in other threads just changed the way runes would work and are probably unlikely for anet to do. Even if they reduced the price of the single use extractors they would probably find more people would buy them (and increase their profita)

Sully.9453:

With the price of runes it’s easier just to overwrite the runes and take the loss than buying an extractor with gold to gem conversion. Due to this i’ve never to this day bought one because if i wanted to switch runes on gear i’d have to buy six of them for the full set. They can still keep the single use one on the gem store. My point was peoples suggestions for runes in other threads just changed the way runes would work and are probably unlikely for anet to do. Even if they reduced the price of the single use extractors they would probably find more people would buy them (and increase their profita)

But if it was cheaper to convert gold into gems to buy an extractor instead of buying a new rune or sigil on the TP, everybody would do it and two things would happen:
The gold/gem ratio would rise and the prices for the runes on the tp would fall until its cheaper again, to just buy a new rune instead of getting an extractor.

they already do this with salvage kits, harvesting kits. its no different except for how often its used. That might cause some issue, but I highly doubt it for armor. People already own multiple sets to hot swap, and I cant imagine sales of the extractor being anything more then already stated, to extract a high end AR part. To me even though I dont run alot of multiple sets of armor often, it would still be a worthwhile thing if sold around the 1k mark. Those who dont want to pay can still swap the runes like normal. its not like that option would be disappearing.

one last thing, Legendary armor wont be any higher in stats then the Ascended versions, so really its just a reskin issue.