Guild Wars 2

So I’m trying to equip my engi with runes and the armor I have equipped already has runes in place. I’ve done a search on the wiki page and found nothing, so I thought I would come and ask anyone here if there is some way of removing the runes already attached to the armor, without having to go and spend more money on the same armor.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upgrade_Extractor

The upgrade extractor is stupidly expensive, though.

That said – you can overwrite the runes inside with the new runes. Sure, you lose the old ones, but they’re cheap to replace and you don’t want them anyway.

What Sartharina said. You don’t need to remove the old runes to put new ones in; just double click on the runes, and then choose the pieces you want to put them in. If, for some reason, you do want to keep the runes (if they’re expensive and good to sell on the TP for gold, for example), you have a couple of options. If it’s non-karma-bought exotics, you can use a black lion salvage kit on each piece to get the rune back (100% chance of getting it back). If it was bought with karma, your only option is to buy new runes or buy an upgrade extractor.

RoseofGilead.8907:

What Sartharina said. You don’t need to remove the old runes to put new ones in; just double click on the runes, and then choose the pieces you want to put them in. If, for some reason, you do want to keep the runes (if they’re expensive and good to sell on the TP for gold, for example), you have a couple of options. If it’s non-karma-bought exotics, you can use a black lion salvage kit on each piece to get the rune back (100% chance of getting it back). If it was bought with karma, your only option is to buy new runes or buy an upgrade extractor.

Keep in mind, if you use a salvage kit to get the runes back (even a black lion kit) you will lose the armor piece to which the rune was attached.

Quarktastic.1027:

RoseofGilead.8907:

What Sartharina said. You don’t need to remove the old runes to put new ones in; just double click on the runes, and then choose the pieces you want to put them in. If, for some reason, you do want to keep the runes (if they’re expensive and good to sell on the TP for gold, for example), you have a couple of options. If it’s non-karma-bought exotics, you can use a black lion salvage kit on each piece to get the rune back (100% chance of getting it back). If it was bought with karma, your only option is to buy new runes or buy an upgrade extractor.

Keep in mind, if you use a salvage kit to get the runes back (even a black lion kit) you will lose the armor piece to which the rune was attached.

Yeah, I meant to specify that. Good note to make!

Thanks for the responses guys. I had no idea about the Upgrade Extractor and from what have been mentioned, I don’t think I would be in a position to be abler to buy one. And yes I do intend on keeping the armor so a salvage kit would be a no-go for me.

Thanks again guys.

In case you consider the upgrade extractor: for almost all runes, the extractor is more expensive than any rune you want to salvage. So it is cheaper to buy the rune again.

Even if you buy gems with real money and buy the extractor with the gems and extract a rune with the extractor, it would be cheaper to instead buy gold with the gems and buy the rune again with this gold!

The extractor costs 250 gems. Currently, this costs 79 gold if bought with gold. So unless your rune is more expensive than 79 gold, it is cheaper to not extract but buy the rune again.

If you buy 250 gems with real money to get the extractor, then you can exchange these 250 gems for gold instead, which currently yields 50 gold. If the rune you want to extract costs less than 50 gold, you can buy the rune with this gold and keep the surplus, which is a better deal than to waste all 250 gems on the extractor.