Guild Wars 2

latest update 18 july 2013

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

In addition, we’ll also improve the functionality of legendaries, allowing you to set their stats when out of combat to any stat combo available, so you don’t need to transmute stat changes for legendaries. Legendary gear will remain with the same tier of stats as ascended gear and will not be made more powerful than other gear, it will simply be slightly more convenient since it will no longer need transmutations to change stats.

thanks for listening!

i asked for this in the original guild wars 1 so many years ago and now finally in guild wars 2, i see some light.

my faith them is renewed!

thanks!

some updates:
edited to be stats only and not skins. based on the feedback received so far. thanks everyone! will continue to receive feedback.

if u can freely change stats of any piece of equipment

equipment being:
weapons: one handed, two handed, off hand
armor: helm, shoulders, chest, pants, gloves, boots
trinkets: back piece, amulet, ring, ring, accessory, accessory

stats being:
prefix: berserkers, soldiers, knights, etc
suffix: weapon sigils, armor runes, etc
infusions: offensive infusions, utility infusions, defensive infusions, etc

it would be like changing traits, just click on it to bring up a menu of unlocked stats and choose to switch to them while not in combat etc.

do you want it?
do you want to have such equipment stats flexibility in guild wars 2?

yes? why?
no? why? please share why you would oppose such an awesome feature.

thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.

no, on the contrary, this will not kill sales of fine transmutation stones.
this will boost sales of fine transmutation stones tremendously provided that fine transmutation stones is required in the process of unlocking new stats etc.

changing of skins will still require fine transmutation stones.

Not this again.

Dude you already made this thread last week. Serioulsy wth.

No, simply because the multiple sets I already have will become useless.

This is not a needed change, and I think your other threads reflect that people generally feel the same way. I think it might be time to give it up.

Do you know the enough already law? The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

You didn’t get the response you liked from your first thread, so you reworded it and tried again?

Sure it would be great. There, are you happy. But it’s not worth the programming time to change it. There are so many programming tasks being worked out. While this would undoubtedly be nice, it’s not going to happen.

You should probably quit while your’e ahead.

Lexandro.1456:

Not this again.

Dude you already made this thread last week. Serioulsy wth.

nope. this one is a bit different.

Jrunyon.3012:

No, simply because the multiple sets I already have will become useless.

This is not a needed change, and I think your other threads reflect that people generally feel the same way. I think it might be time to give it up.

no. not useless. you will clear up a lot of inventory space.

no. people want this change. just need some time to get this message out to reach out more people.

just because a few people disagrees does not mean everyone disagrees.

thanks for your feedback.

Vayne.8563:

Do you know the enough already law? The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

You didn’t get the response you liked from your first thread, so you reworded it and tried again?

Sure it would be great. There, are you happy. But it’s not worth the programming time to change it. There are so many programming tasks being worked out. While this would undoubtedly be nice, it’s not going to happen.

You should probably quit while your’e ahead.

it will be worth it.

It’ll never happen because Anet will need to earn some money from gem store, and one of the most consistent and sustained sell would be the transmutation stones.

Your “idea” will never happen unless you get players to boycott gem store, which will happen in….. never.

Recycle.5493:

It’ll never happen because Anet will need to earn some money from gem store, and one of the most consistent and sustained sell would be the transmutation stones.

Your “idea” will never happen unless you get players to boycott gem store, which will happen in….. never.

this will encourage more sales of fine transmutation stones, not kill it.

it will happen if there is enough people who wants it.

Lexandro.1456:

Not this again.

Dude you already made this thread last week. Serioulsy wth.

Dude, you remembered? Seriously wth. You need a forum break.

I suggested something like this a while ago but with skins only. Basically everything remains as it is now but you have the extra option of adding a skin to a wardrobe for a price in gems.

It would be another source of gems actually, because I’m sure many would want to bind legendary skins to their character’s wardrobe.

You should be allowed to change ONLY THE PREFIX for a price.

Freely change the skin? You have to be very stupid to allow that

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

this will encourage more sales of fine transmutation stones, not kill it.

Please, enlighten us how this will encourage transmutation stones. Are you actually trying to reason that being able to change the skin at any time via a drop down menu will somehow do this?

You should just have a slot for the skin and be able to pick the stats yourself. Runes and upgrades are dumb and just waste of time buying them all over the place and clicking on them. just have an tick box and increase this stat decrease that stat. Simple, fun, and customizable. RIGHT?

Jrunyon.3012:

Please, enlighten us how this will encourage transmutation stones. Are you actually trying to reason that being able to change the skin at any time via a drop down menu will somehow do this?

it can be made such a way, such that, fine transmutation stones are required in order to unlock new skins and stats onto a single piece of equipment.

people will be more likely to spend on permanent items.
not temporary.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Jrunyon.3012:

Please, enlighten us how this will encourage transmutation stones. Are you actually trying to reason that being able to change the skin at any time via a drop down menu will somehow do this?

it can be made such a way, such that, fine transmutation stones are required in order to unlock new skins and stats onto a single piece of equipment.

people will be more likely to spend on permanent items.
not temporary.

A short sighted conclusion. People are buying FTS now (just not you). You are also implying both FTS will cost the same. The game needs gold sinks or the economy will suffer

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

people will be more likely to spend on permanent items.
not temporary.

Yes, but then they will not buy again, which is the opposite of what a company wants.

And what happens when everyone has the equipment they want and no one needs exotics anymore? The price of them tanks and as a result, ecto prices tank. This has way too much effect on the economic side of the game.

Orion the Cursed.1206:

A short sighted conclusion. People are buying FTS now (just not you). You are also implying both FTS will cost the same. The game needs gold sinks or the economy will suffer

this is a gold sink.

Jrunyon.3012:

Yes, but then they will not buy again, which is the opposite of what a company wants.

And what happens when everyone has the equipment they want and no one needs exotics anymore? The price of them tanks and as a result, ecto prices tank. This has way too much effect on the economic side of the game.

there will always be new skins, new stats, new players, new characters.

people will keep on buying.

1 time cost aren’t a sink. You also didn’t say how much the cost of FTS should increase. There are people with 50g in bank, and there are people with 50,000g in bank, please keep that in mind. We need to provide the 50,000g with a (cosmetic) way to sink their gold.

Orion the Cursed.1206:

1 time cost aren’t a sink. You also didn’t say how much the cost of FTS should increase. There are people with 50g in bank, and there are people with 50,000g in bank, please keep that in mind. We need to provide the 50,000g with a (cosmetic) way to sink their gold.

what if, only equipment stats have freedom?
and skins were to remain as it is now.

i.e. the original question would be:
if u can freely change the stats of any piece of equipment

remove skins from there.
i.e. to change skins, fine transmutation stones is needed for each piece and each time.

Orion the Cursed.1206:

You should be allowed to change ONLY THE PREFIX for a price.

Freely change the skin? You have to be very stupid to allow that

i only agree with the prefix change, but that’s because Anet refuse to fill the prefix-item gaps.

freely changing suffix and infusion, i cant justify since you can just buy a stack of them and certain runes and sigils are more expensive so being able to change will drop their price and rarity significantly. Would also be a problem if the unsold ones start to clog the TP months from now

So how are different these different things unlocked anyways?

Orion the Cursed.1206:

i only agree with the prefix change, but that’s because Anet refuse to fill the prefix-item gaps.

so you would be somewhat agreeable if we are able to change the prefixes of equipment upon paying a fee, just like how paying a fee to reset our traits?

what do you mean by “refuse to fill the prefix-item gaps” though?

Jrunyon.3012:

So how are different these different things unlocked anyways?

well, the original idea is to be able let characters to freely switch between unlocked skins and stats of any piece of equipment.

but since many opposes this concept, perhaps will have to change it to stats only and see if their opinions changes.

“refuse to fill the prefix-item gaps”

^ dungeon gear only offer 3 prefix choices (minor issue). Some prefix are not avaliable for ascended and backgear(major issue). Legendaries only have 1 prefix(major issue)

“So how are different these different things unlocked anyways?”

^I think he means should unlocking an item destroy it in the process? This is to avoid trading items just to unlock the gear. Also are they account/character unlocks? Details such as that.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

well, the original idea is to be able let characters to freely switch between unlocked skins and stats of any piece of equipment.

That’s what I’m asking. How are the skins/stats unlocked?

Orion the Cursed.1206:

“refuse to fill the prefix-item gaps”

^ dungeon gear only offer 3 prefix choices (minor issue). Some prefix are not avaliable for ascended and backgear(major issue). Legendaries only have 1 prefix(major issue)

“So how are different these different things unlocked anyways?”

^I think he means should unlocking an item destroy it in the process? This is to avoid trading items just to unlock the gear.

oooo thanks for the clarification! XD
yes, it could be designed such that, to unlock new stats, the item with the new stats is absorbed into the existing item.

Jrunyon.3012:

That’s what I’m asking. How are the skins/stats unlocked?

all right thanks for clarifying that!
well, for example:
1st helm has berserker stats originally.
2nd helm has knights stats.
1st helm collects knights stats essence from the 2nd helm.
2nd helm is destroyed in the process. i.e. eaten by the 1st helm.
1st helm now can switch between berserkers and knights stats.
this process will consume a gem store product, i.e. fine transmutation stones

for gold sink purposes, can make it so that each change will require some silvers perhaps? for balancing economic purposes, as mentioned by many in here.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

In addition, we’ll also improve the functionality of legendaries, allowing you to set their stats when out of combat to any stat combo available, so you don’t need to transmute stat changes for legendaries. Legendary gear will remain with the same tier of stats as ascended gear and will not be made more powerful than other gear, it will simply be slightly more convenient since it will no longer need transmutations to change stats.

thanks for listening!

i asked for this in the original guild wars 1 so many years ago and now finally in guild wars 2, i see some light.

my faith them is renewed!

I wouldn’t want to change stats of items…people will immediately start mathing that out, find the optimal damage ratio, and then the majority will use the same formula while a few dissidents will try different blends. However, the way that’s described it only means you will be able to switch legendaries from Soldier to Zerk to Carrion etc…

Meridian.8730:

I wouldn’t want to change stats of items…people will immediately start mathing that out, find the optimal damage ratio, and then the majority will use the same formula while a few dissidents will try different blends. However, the way that’s described it only means you will be able to switch legendaries from Soldier to Zerk to Carrion etc…

in the future, legendary weapons can change stats when out of combat.

Legendary weapons should have this feature (which they will), regular armour and weapons should not. Why? Because everything about this game is to do with building … allow people to swap stats around at will and what’s the point of ever carrying on beyond getting one set of armour and weapons?

Or do you mean that in order to unlock these different stats you first need to earn all the different sets anyway, but once you have you can unlock the stats for each piece of armour thereafter. But if you want one you haven’t yet unlocked, you’ll need to farm/craft/buy an item with that stat set? If this is what you mean then that makes more sense.

I’d like to verify that those of us who’ve already transmuted our legendaries won’t be locked out.

Ascended items should have that feature and the same stats as exotics. It would have been the perfect way to make them :’(

funny how some people said that anet will never make such thing.

i.e. change stats on gear.