Guild Wars 2

This item is for sale now for 125gems. Which comes down to about 32gold as we speak. …Why even? most runes and sigils are less than 15g. (a little early for Aprils fool joke no ANet? :P)

So.. instead why doesn’t this item become a permanent thing? In exchange it could be a lot more expansive ofc. Perhaps something down the line with copper or silver salvage kit. That would be a lot more interesting for people with expansive upgrades or use same gear stats with different upgrades. As example people with legendary equipment.

I agree.

Changing stats on Legendary items usually requires rune or sigil change on them. Which means any character running at least two builds and having at least one legendary spends more and more gold to change runes. This could me solved with some sort of “rune system rework”, which definitely is not an easy task.

Instead, we could solve problem with very little development expenses by introducing infinite upgrade extractor. Of course, due to immense power of this item we need it to be rare. One of examples would be making it same as “infinite hairstyle kit” – droppable from Black Lion chests and sellable on TP. I imagine with same drop rate it would be definitely not cheap and basically cost as another legendary item, thus only those who have several legendary items could pursue obtaining it, and as a result it will be a major upgrade to their legendary setup.

Currently the problem is not that severe, we only have legendary weapons and backpack. But with legendary armor it definitely would be. Personally i feel no will to obtain legendary armor because my two main “builds” require rune change, which will cost gold and defy all advantages of selectable stats on armor. It is more practical to have two sets of ascended armor in that case

I don’t know if legendaries should be factored into this discussion, because my understanding is they’re going to do something about this with legendary armor. It would still be nice to have a permanent one for ascended, since stat changing is a thing – at its current price + the cost of the leather to stat change, you’re almost better off just crafting a new piece of ascended.

Hopefully legendaries (and maybe ascended) will get a way to swap between ‘owned’ or ‘stored’ runes and stats, and you need to bind one such rune to either the account or piece of equipment to unlock it for selection. I’m probably hoping for too much out of ascended, but even if we just get rune/sigil swapping on legendary/ascended, that will be very nice.

The “simple” sollution in my mind:
Remove Upgrade Extractor from gem store
Add a Gold-fed Extract-o-matic; removing all upgrades from an item for a cost of 1(/5/10/whatever devs deem appropriate) Gold per use. Unlimited uses.

*simple here meaning using existing tech, nothing new. Implementation is not necesarily simple, but simpler than making something completely new.