Guild Wars 2

Making a pair of ascended leather gloves cost over 50 gold. How many of us have a piece of ascended gear that we wish had another set of stats.

I was thinking if we could recraft them to change their stats, that would be a nice feature. Perhaps we could make a hammer of soldier’s stats and whack, the stats are set to soldier’s.

That is such a great idea o.O
and if the “<Attribute set>crafting hammer” costs 1 Sigil of <Attribute set> and an Oricalcum crafting hammer to make, it would even be very fitting :P

In another thread, I suggested that there be some way to update ascended gear in the mystic forge, something like

• Ascended item
• Skill point item (philosopher stones or eldritch scroll, e.g.)
• Vision Crystal
• Relevant Insignia/Inscription

This would encourage people to experiment more with ascended gear, without the fear of wasting their time/coin.

That would be useful. I am looking to gear my engineer and wanted to try different sets of armor including celestial (time gated nightmare). The ability to swap stats would be great.

I honestly don’t see the point of crafting ascended gear apart from a completionist stand. The stat difference is marginally better and not worth the cost. It’s really only required for high level fractals which is hardly an endgame since the reward gain isn’t really there.

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I honestly don’t see the point of crafting ascended gear apart from a completionist stand. The stat difference is marginally better and not worth the cost. It’s really only required for high level fractals which is hardly an endgame since the reward gain isn’t really there.

High Level fractals is actually kind of the only engame gw2 has (for me and many others at least). Sure kittenty rewards, but the challenge is fun and most of the players at level 50 are pretty good. Every dungeon can be done with any group and with some people having bare knowledge of whats going on. But fractal 50 takes a moderate amount of coordination to finish at a reasonable pace which makes it fun and worth the ascended armor.

Thumbs up to the OP, this would also make getting chests with stats you dont want useful. I have a fair amount of ascended armor pieces i cant use atm because i have no use for them, except maybe for ar.

If your stuff is infused, the difference between ascended and exotic is roughly the same as the difference between rare and exotic… Its not the stats that gives the greatest asset though… its the armor value and damage… however, the stats does have value and it would be great to be able to switch em…