Guild Wars 2

Anyone else pretty upset that you cannot put these in Ascended items…. It does not make any sense at all that I have to equip an exotic trinket to get the effect but lose about 200 stat points and an agony slot.

These things should be in the wardrobe or in a seperate cosmetics effect slot. It’s been brought up before, but it’s a small thing and always gets ignored. Hey ho…

if hey cant make it just an effect that is applyable to the character they should give us a merchant to exchange these things vs ar 7 infusions or stat5 ar +7 infusions and WvW infusion too so we can actually use them with our ascended gear

So technically you could equip it to a level 78 crafted backpiece and not only keep an infusion slow but also lose almost no stats at all, though you wouldn’t lose 200 regardless of how you use it.

That said, it’s weird that there’s this one exception for cosmetic items not handled via the wardrobe. It’s probably because of how tremendously uncommon these are.

I’d also like these to be usable with the ascended amulets….

It’s very lame to settle for exotic level gear only.

AngelStryke.1297:

Anyone else pretty upset that you cannot put these in Ascended items…. It does not make any sense at all that I have to equip an exotic trinket to get the effect but lose about 200 stat points and an agony slot.

Everyone who owns them is upset you can’t even put them in an account bound trinket, so it’s ‘stuck’ to whoever is using it.

However, I don’t see this getting “fixed” anytime soon.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

AngelStryke.1297:

Anyone else pretty upset that you cannot put these in Ascended items…. It does not make any sense at all that I have to equip an exotic trinket to get the effect but lose about 200 stat points and an agony slot.

Everyone who owns them is upset you can’t even put them in an account bound trinket, so it’s ‘stuck’ to whoever is using it.

However, I don’t see this getting “fixed” anytime soon.

Huh? Who says you cannot put them into an account bound trinket? There may be some which do not work, but I know for sure that others DO work because I have one of those refractors in my cultivated vine backpack and another in my enchanted key accessory from lions arch (the one you get for completing the map from the enchanted map parts).

if the refractor worked as an infusion rather than a jewel….. we wouldn’t have this problem at all.

Shikigami.4013:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

AngelStryke.1297:

Anyone else pretty upset that you cannot put these in Ascended items…. It does not make any sense at all that I have to equip an exotic trinket to get the effect but lose about 200 stat points and an agony slot.

Everyone who owns them is upset you can’t even put them in an account bound trinket, so it’s ‘stuck’ to whoever is using it.

However, I don’t see this getting “fixed” anytime soon.

Huh? Who says you cannot put them into an account bound trinket? There may be some which do not work, but I know for sure that others DO work because I have one of those refractors in my cultivated vine backpack and another in my enchanted key accessory from lions arch (the one you get for completing the map from the enchanted map parts).

Find me a trinket that remains account bound after adding the poly-lumi. There are plenty of account bound exotics; the only one I know that remains that way after upgrading costs 1,000 karka shells.

Blaine Tog.8304:

So technically you could equip it to a level 78 crafted backpiece and not only keep an infusion slow but also lose almost no stats at all, though you wouldn’t lose 200 regardless of how you use it.

That said, it’s weird that there’s this one exception for cosmetic items not handled via the wardrobe. It’s probably because of how tremendously uncommon these are.

Technically, no you can’t as it has a level 80 requirement, not level 78. For the OP, you are not losing points at all. At triple stat Ascended back has 142 total stat points. An exotic triple stat plus the celestial Poly has 157 total stat points. Even if one would argue you wanted only those exact three stats, that’s 109 points for only a loss of 34 total points. A similarly negligible loss of 41 points, if counting only the triple stats, when putting it in an Accessory.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Shikigami.4013:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

AngelStryke.1297:

Anyone else pretty upset that you cannot put these in Ascended items…. It does not make any sense at all that I have to equip an exotic trinket to get the effect but lose about 200 stat points and an agony slot.

Everyone who owns them is upset you can’t even put them in an account bound trinket, so it’s ‘stuck’ to whoever is using it.

However, I don’t see this getting “fixed” anytime soon.

Huh? Who says you cannot put them into an account bound trinket? There may be some which do not work, but I know for sure that others DO work because I have one of those refractors in my cultivated vine backpack and another in my enchanted key accessory from lions arch (the one you get for completing the map from the enchanted map parts).

Find me a trinket that remains account bound after adding the poly-lumi. There are plenty of account bound exotics; the only one I know that remains that way after upgrading costs 1,000 karka shells.

These are salvagable even…..
PTV
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Corpse_Flower
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Saurian_Roar

Carrion
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Silencing_Down_Feather
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Energetic_Chak_Goop
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vinetooth_Fang
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Flawless_Tiger_Claw
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wyvern_Scale
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Friendly_Mushroom_Spirit
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pristine_Shadow_Claw

My guess is they’re testing the waters with these for jeweler 500.

The trick here is that they don’t want to undermine the existing acquisition methods of ascended jewelry, so they can’t just add ascended crafting to jeweler and call it a day. Nobody would bother to level it to 500 and spend the time and mats just to make something they can get in a week with guild missions or, few weeks with laurels, or just be doing some low end fractals.

So they have to sweeten the pot to make people want to level jeweler to 500, but they have to do it without creating stat creep since they have firmly planted their foot down at this point and said “no more stats”

So, what’s the primary reward mechanism for the game? Cosmetics!

How do we get people to want to level jeweler to 500? Cosmetics!

Mark my words: Jeweler 500 will craft items like these, which go in to a specific cosmetic infusion slot which can only be found in jeweler 500 crafted jewelry.

At that point I wouldn’t be suprised if they added a quick upgrade for the existing items to convert them to the new system.

DeWolfe.2174:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Shikigami.4013:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

AngelStryke.1297:

Anyone else pretty upset that you cannot put these in Ascended items…. It does not make any sense at all that I have to equip an exotic trinket to get the effect but lose about 200 stat points and an agony slot.

Everyone who owns them is upset you can’t even put them in an account bound trinket, so it’s ‘stuck’ to whoever is using it.

However, I don’t see this getting “fixed” anytime soon.

Huh? Who says you cannot put them into an account bound trinket? There may be some which do not work, but I know for sure that others DO work because I have one of those refractors in my cultivated vine backpack and another in my enchanted key accessory from lions arch (the one you get for completing the map from the enchanted map parts).

Find me a trinket that remains account bound after adding the poly-lumi. There are plenty of account bound exotics; the only one I know that remains that way after upgrading costs 1,000 karka shells.

These are salvagable even…..
[various new drops from the new zones]

Right, I forgot to check if the new exotic trinkets were salvageable or remained account bound after being upgraded. Prior to HoT release, it was just the one trinket that remained account bound (although it was not salvageable).

Still, that’s a rather limited set.

And it doesn’t distract from the main issue:
The poly-luminescent and queen bee effects aren’t able to be applied to most people’s gear, without limiting it to a single character, unlike the skins for weapons, armor, or back items.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

if the refractor worked as an infusion rather than a jewel….. we wouldn’t have this problem at all.

These should be changed to act like the new ghostly infusion.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Find me a trinket that remains account bound after adding the poly-lumi. There are plenty of account bound exotics; the only one I know that remains that way after upgrading costs 1,000 karka shells.

I already listed the two account bound trinkets that stayed account bound after I added the refractor, and none of them are your karka shell and none of them are new or require HOT. They are the cultivated vine backpack and the enchanted key accessory. The key is even salvageable if you really really think you need to sell the refractor at any time in the future. I am pretty sure I will never want to sell it so it does not matter to me.