Guild Wars 2

What is the answer to this? all transmutation stones/crystals are now switching to charges so you can reapply skins to different stat combinations that you have, but they had another function; allowing you to swap sigils or runes from one gear piece to another of equivalent type. The answer for this before patch was transmutation crystals or Black Lion Kits, but for karma gear you cannot actually SALVAGE them last I checked, so black lion kits do not work. Does this mean that upgrade extractors are going to be the only option for this? It seems rather wrong for this given their price vs Transmutation stones/crystals. or are transmutation crystals still going to be available for those who wish to use them for this option?

I would like an answer to this as well. I have the old pair of Mad King’s slippers with a traveler rune in it, and would very much like to get that out. But it is unsalvageable, just like karma gear.

Yeah, I asked this question back when the wardrobe was announced but never got any kind of answer. Of course the question was merged into the massive thread and effectively lost forever.

AFAIK all temple runes are also on some exotic drops, which can be bought from the TP and salvaged, so I think either that or the upgrade extractor will be our only options.

They really should either allow all armors to be salvaged again or at least add the runes to the temple vendors as stand-alone items.

The best solution to that would be to put the runes themselves at the temple karma vendors

Astralporing.1957:

The best solution to that would be to put the runes themselves at the temple karma vendors

I could agree with this

and you don’t think that it’s exploiting to transmute the stats onto something else in order to salvage it to get a rune that would otherwise be unobtainable?

Xbon.9086:

and you don’t think that it’s exploiting to transmute the stats onto something else in order to salvage it to get a rune that would otherwise be unobtainable?

No, because those armor sets are not unsalvageable because of runes. they are unsalvageable because people exchanged karma (at the time when it was easy to get) into ectos and Anet didn’t like that.

Xbon.9086:

and you don’t think that it’s exploiting to transmute the stats onto something else in order to salvage it to get a rune that would otherwise be unobtainable?

If you want a melandru rune on armor with stats that aren’t sold at the melandru temple, you would get your stat armor, buy the temple armor, then use a transmutation crystal to move only the upgrade over and keep the appearance and stats of the other armor.

This is definitely not exploiting.

It is also now impossible, leaving only much more expensive options for obtaining those runes unless you happen to want the same stats sold at the temple.