Guild Wars 2

Now, I’m not against the change to Crit Damage at all but as someone who have optimized and made ascended armor just before the Crit Damage change was announced, I’m still hoping that somehow there is a way change stats combo on those pieces.
Whether it’ll be to be able to temporary exchange the armor pieces for ascended boxes or break them down to the base components so that you at least have the materials you have initially invested on to work with. I don’t even mind going through the time gated crafting again if at least I can have the materials I already invested in once back to do so.

I’ve seen different opinions on this, from liking it if Anet does have a way to provide this to totally against it because “Anet isn’t responsible for what the players decide to craft and that they should not have to be compensating players every balance change”. And to that I can only say that players can only work with the information that was available at the time.
Had they announced the change to Crit Damage before ascended armor was released, surely many players, even if it’s not the majority, would have decided differently as what stats to craft for which pieces. The most irritating thing with this is the fact that the change was announced just not long after there was enough time for the average player to craft a full set.

So what are your opinions on this? Will this be fair? unfair? and why so?

Note: Please do not assume I’m referring to just berserker, I’m referring to any stat combo with Crit Damage.