Guild Wars 2

Let’s say you have a very expensive hard to get ascended armor set (or weapon). You put a good rune set (eg. Scholar runes) into it for dungeons. But then you want to WvW with that armor and would like a different rune set in it. You can either: Create a separate, new set of armor and put the new rune set into it, which is expensive and clutters your inventory. Or you can replace the Scholar’s runes which would destroy them and lose lots of gold.

Why not have an upgrade available to all ascended weapons/armor (Legendaries would automatically have the upgrade applied) which you can interchange runes/sigils without destroying either the item or rune/sigil. This upgrade could either be obtained through crafting or questline (or even the forge).

I know there is an upgrade extractor….but 99% of the time it is cheaper to just buy a new rune, so no one ever uses them. There has to be a better way! Also, this would give ascended armor an advantage more than just a tiny stat boost.

If only we could craft another set of armor or buy them for karma/gold/wvw badges.

I mean since you yourself admit its just a tiny stat boos why would you need it in wvw?

And if you dont have the 16 slots for a dubble set of items you can always put them in the bank or a mule character untill you need them.

Edit
Would be best to get another armor/weapon/trinkets anyway since most people use berserker for pve and that aint the best one depending on class for wvw by far.

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Would be best to get another armor/weapon/trinkets anyway since most people use berserker for pve and that aint the best one depending on class for wvw by far.

Um, there are lots of viable (and meta) WvW builds which use zerker armor/weapons….

Being able to switch between previously added sigils on legendary weapons is another old request that ANet never answered on.
At least there it would seem to logically follow the switch-able stats; afaik a legendary is meant to be the last weapon of it’s type you ever need.

I wouldn’t expect that on ascended gear though. I feel they’re meant to be a heavy time and money sink.

Itd make more sense if something like this went in legendary armor (if/when it ever comes out). Sigils on legendary weapons would also be awesome.

I don’t see why it cant be on all weapons (especially ascended/legendary). It’s not like you aren’t buying the runes/sigils you have to unlock each other them on each piece of armor/weapon to use. If anything this would just help the game market because people are buying up the less used runes/sigils to use on those rare occasions that they could be fun.

I would use a vast number of different combinations if it didn’t have such a steep price to swap out the ones I have now.

Do you also want a key to the flat where all the money is?

It won’t happen. Ever. ANET wants you to need different weapons and armors because you spend time and currency on them. Time and currency more often than not translates into money for ANET. ANET needs money.

Be thankful they allow for stat swaps on legendaries.