Guild Wars 2

Could we please get the ability to change an Ascended weapon or armour chest into the stat combination that we want?

The way I see it, it could be done like so:

1) You receive a “Mathilde’s weapon chest”
2) You wanted a “Zojja’s weapon chest”
3) You put the Mathilde’s weapon chest together with a mystic forge stone, mystic coin and Zojja’s inscription.

(with armour, you but an Insignia)

And voila! You can get any ascended item you want.
If not, please allow us to salvage ascended weapons for Vision crystals or the other components needed to craft said item.

My one and only Ascended drop I’ve ever gotten was a Magi stat combo armor box, which I have no use for. I’d be all in favor of this.

Or merge the chests and inside the chest is all the possible choices, either weapons or armor. Select the piece and stats you want.

Ya. All ascended chest should be like the ascended chest you receive from luminescent collection or ambrite weapons collections. You can choose any stats and any type of gear. At least this way each time you receive a ascended chest it will be a nice reward. Now, most time you receive a ascended chest it only accumulate dust in your inventory/bank/mule.

I’m happy this is seeing some positive reactions! I have no use for my Mathilde’s weapon chest at the moment…

That would be awesome.

I got 2 ascended chests so far I cant use either.
I refuse to play the game the way random drops force me to.

Arkinos.7245:

That would be awesome.

I got 2 ascended chests so far I cant use either.
I refuse to play the game the way random drops force me to.

Agreed!

I endorse this. I’ve gotten five ascended weapons chests since October (Chorben’s, Hronk’s, Mathilde’s, and two Tequatl’s Hoards) and while I’ve selected weapons for all of them, I could wish that I had had the ability – for an extra cost, as suggested – to change the stats to something fitting my character better. Additional modification proposed; you can only do the stat change once, so you’d better think carefully about what stats you’d prefer before taking the plunge.

Astral Projections.7320:

Or merge the chests and inside the chest is all the possible choices, either weapons or armor. Select the piece and stats you want.

for as rare of a drop as ascended boxes are – it SHOULD be this way. the other option is to 5-10x the drop rate and keep it random stats – can’t salvage ascended anyways so I think upping the drop rate would be more fun.

I still don’t understand why they don’t let us salvage ascended. (or why they refuse to even comment on it) I mean if it has a bad stat combo and just collects dust it would have been better to get an exotic drop. That in itself is kind of sad.

Kronos.2560:

I still don’t understand why they don’t let us salvage ascended. (or why they refuse to even comment on it) I mean if it has a bad stat combo and just collects dust it would have been better to get an exotic drop. That in itself is kind of sad.

I’m personally getting very frustrated with ArenaNet refusing to answer many issues the community is forced to suffer through, such as the Ascended drops issue…

Is it so hard to tell us “We’re working on something” or “we’re not talking about it at the moment”….

Astral Projections.7320:

Or merge the chests and inside the chest is all the possible choices, either weapons or armor. Select the piece and stats you want.

Yes much better. Last year I got a weapon from a chest in WvW. Most useless stats ever
RNG times 2.

I was happy once to see a pink drop, and it turned out to be a Magi chest.

Magi is the only stat I believe is actually worse than Nomad.

Instead of an insigna, which is very expensive, I’d put a certain quantity of the respective T5 material (or a tiny quantity of the T6).

Not all weapon combinations have t5/6 precursors. Some must be crafted from exo insignia. Soldier, Dire, Rabid for example.

That said I wouldn’t mind paying even an ascended insignia if it gets the worse-than-useless Magi weapon out of my alt mule’s inventory and into the hands of a character that might actually make some use out of it.

Maxwell.7843:

Instead of an insigna, which is very expensive, I’d put a certain quantity of the respective T5 material (or a tiny quantity of the T6).

Yes it is expensive, but it balances out a lot, wouldn’t you agree on that?

I feel that Ascended gear should remain very rare, and this method would just eliminate the useless gear we receive from it.

My reasoning is that if the ascended chest is supposed to be greatly desirable and rewarding, then your sense of accomplishment when getting it shouldn’t be diminished by the need to spend a ton of gold on an insignia to get stats that you can use.
If I’m going to get good loot once every blue moon, let it be actually good, no strings attached.

I’d like to see all ascended chests existing in game become of the kind you get from the Bioluminescence achievement (minus the transmutations charges, of course). That would make the most sense for me. You double click, and pick the stats of the chest inside the chest.
A cheap mystic forge recipe can be a good compromise, but I maintain that getting loot shouldn’t feel punishing.

Also, this wouldn’t diminish the rarity of Ascended gear. Unless you meant “rare” in the sense that Ascended needs be exclusively for people who can afford to buy/craft an insignia, but in that case I’d have to disagree.

Maxwell.7843:

My reasoning is that if the ascended chest is supposed to be greatly desirable and rewarding, then your sense of accomplishment when getting it shouldn’t be diminished by the need to spend a ton of gold on an insignia to get stats that you can use.
If I’m going to get good loot once every blue moon, let it be actually good, no strings attached.

I’d like to see all ascended chests existing in game become of the kind you get from the Bioluminescence achievement (minus the transmutations charges, of course). That would make the most sense for me. You double click, and pick the stats of the chest inside the chest.
A cheap mystic forge recipe can be a good compromise, but I maintain that getting loot shouldn’t feel punishing.

Also, this wouldn’t diminish the rarity of Ascended gear. Unless you meant “rare” in the sense that Ascended needs be exclusively for people who can afford to buy/craft an insignia, but in that case I’d have to disagree.

As much as I’d like this to happen, I just can’t see it. Ascended gear that you get for free, with the wrong stats, just needs to have some kind of “compensation” for if you want to get the stats you want. Keep in mind that ascended gear costs about 120G sometimes, in the case of Light armour.