Guild Wars 2

Hello. Since, i leave grind to other mmo like Mike O’brien (President of Arenanet) said, i dont have legendary weapon, nor ascended weapons or armor

But i heard that legendary weapons can swap stats when you are not in combat.

So, why couldnt we have that for exotic / ascended gear too ( armor – weapons – jewels ) ?

because actualy, its a bit irritating, you choose one stat for a build, but you want 2 differents set of runes for somes test, if thoses runes are expensive, you going to have 2 ( or more ) sets of the same stats just because of the runes.
You want play another build ? you need another armor set multiply by the various runes combination.
You can easyly end up with 4-5 armors set…

Same for the weapons because of the sigil.

Multiply that by all the alt you can have… that turn everything just insane.

So please Anet, stop annoye us with that crazy gear rush, and make exotic – ascended gear with a stat swap like the legendary.

One of the things discussed in the CDI (vertical progression one) was adding the ability to change the stats on ascended gear. An idea I personally like is being able to use a t-stone to simply replace the inscription with a new one (changing the stats). It’s a good balance… not as convenient as what legendary is hoped to have yet still allows for players to swap things around as to change builds.

Firstly you can only swap the base stats of a legendary. If you want to change the upgrade you still need to buy each one and either overwrite the existing one or use an upgrade extractor to remove it. So this wouldn’t help in your situation, you would still need to buy all the different runes you want.

Secondly this option was added to legendary weapons because before that each one was only available with one set of stats, and it was one very few people used (PVT I think?) so a lot of people were having to make or buy a legendary and then get a whole other weapon to transmute it with just to have one they could actually use.

Exotic and even ascended weapons are already avaliable will a wide range of different stat combinations, often with the same skin (especially with ascended where they all share 1 skin) so there’s no need to do that. They’re also a lot cheaper and easier to get than legendaries.

If exotics had stat swaps, their prices would completely tank. Exotics are cheap enough now that at level 80, you should be able to afford a few sets.

I’d actually really love if they made it so that you could change stats on Ascended gear at a crafting table. That would leave in the gear, while still allowing people to explore other builds without being either 1) stuck in gimpy gear, or 2) obligated to grind incessantly to have BiS again.

Actually, were they to introduce stat swapping on ascended gear, I’d never complain about it again.