Guild Wars 2

I haven’t gotten a chance to log in yet, and won’t until this weekend. Has anyone checked to see if city completion still gives the 3-transmutation stone reward (IE one transmutation charge?) or has the reward been changed?

Believe it was changed. There are no stones anymore for starters. Each rank you gain in PvP gives a charge though. If you’re into PvP.

Completed a regular map and got 1 charge. Did not try a city.

Map completion gives a charge. Have not tried a city, but it was specifically mentioned by a dev prior to patch that city completion gives a charge.

Nice so it’s better than the previous system was.

Draknar.5748:

Nice so it’s better than the previous system was.

Yes. Getting rid of transmutation stones was a huge improvement.

Draknar.5748:

Nice so it’s better than the previous system was.

I agree, but there is a down-side. As you couldn’t use a stone for level 80 gear it did allow me to change the appearance of characters I’m leveling up at will, now I probably won’t change anything until I am 80 and have all my gear.

Price worth paying though, in my opinion.

I did a map completion of Timberline Falls last night and did not get a charge. I didn’t see it as an item in the reward popup. Maybe it went straight to my wallet but I’m pretty sure I didn’t get one.

Nabrok.9023:

Draknar.5748:

Nice so it’s better than the previous system was.

I agree, but there is a down-side. As you couldn’t use a stone for level 80 gear it did allow me to change the appearance of characters I’m leveling up at will, now I probably won’t change anything until I am 80 and have all my gear.

Price worth paying though, in my opinion.

I bet their metrics showed that most people didn’t bother transmutating low level gear. I think I did it once, myself. I’m sure some people did, but I think most of us never used most of the stones we got.

sterling.4238:

I did a map completion of Timberline Falls last night and did not get a charge. I didn’t see it as an item in the reward popup. Maybe it went straight to my wallet but I’m pretty sure I didn’t get one.

Check your inventory. It should be there. You need to double-click it to get the charge, not sure why they don’t have it just go straight to wallet.

hey, now I actually want to do exploration again! I never bothered getting good armor until 80, knowing that I would not be using the lower armor much. Now that you can use the charges on whatever whenever, and you get charges from map completion I can actually use at 80, I am a much happier camper. Thanks Anet

Draknar.5748:

Believe it was changed. There are no stones anymore for starters. Each rank you gain in PvP gives a charge though. If you’re into PvP.

Yay, that means i will be forever stuck with 2 stones i was left with when converting my stones and crystals. Wonder if there is anything i will be able to do with them short of just throwing them away.

Finaldeath.1059:

Yay, that means i will be forever stuck with 2 stones i was left with when converting my stones and crystals. Wonder if there is anything i will be able to do with them short of just throwing them away.

I had the same problem, saw a thread that quoted with a source from a Dev that said they are of no use now, so I trashed mine.

Nabrok.9023:

sterling.4238:

I did a map completion of Timberline Falls last night and did not get a charge. I didn’t see it as an item in the reward popup. Maybe it went straight to my wallet but I’m pretty sure I didn’t get one.

Check your inventory. It should be there. You need to double-click it to get the charge, not sure why they don’t have it just go straight to wallet.

If it comes as an item then I didn’t get it. I got a rare helm, a rare focus, 40 scraps of linen, some money, and a hefty chunk of exp. No transmutation charge item like I got from the TP.

Nabrok.9023:

Map completion gives a charge. Have not tried a city, but it was specifically mentioned by a dev prior to patch that city completion gives a charge.

Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed to know. This means I can build charges with my key runs (in which I include rata sum and sometimes the grove completion)

Becka Williams.4978:

Nabrok.9023:

Draknar.5748:

Nice so it’s better than the previous system was.

I agree, but there is a down-side. As you couldn’t use a stone for level 80 gear it did allow me to change the appearance of characters I’m leveling up at will, now I probably won’t change anything until I am 80 and have all my gear.

Price worth paying though, in my opinion.

I bet their metrics showed that most people didn’t bother transmutating low level gear. I think I did it once, myself. I’m sure some people did, but I think most of us never used most of the stones we got.

Yeah, I used them on a couple characters which I wanted to have specific armor on all the way through leveling (often just the headgear or whatnot from the character creation), but usually this was only 4-5 times per piece before hitting 80.

this is now much better.

For map completion in zones, you get 2 leveled pieces of equipment, a leveled black lion item and an amount of leveled crafting materials.
So if you didn’t get a transmutation charge, that’s probably, because you got more amazing stuff in the black lion slot(like, say, a black lion salvage kit, or a black lion key)
I completed caledon forest on a new char today(leveling with a mate). Whilst he got a transmutation charge, I pulled a key from my map, opened a chest, grabbed 2 rare dyes from a dye pack, and was happy.