Guild Wars 2

Forgive me if this has already been asked, but could it possible to break the components of legendary ingredients back down?

For example, in preparation for the Heart of Thorns Legendary, I decided to make a Gift of Mastery. In addition, I have all the necessary ingredients for a Gift of Fortune as well. Fortunately, I had the foresight not to make a Gift of Fortune. Anyways, seeing as how the Gift of Mastery does me no good towards making these new weapons, but the component parts would (Gift of Battle, Gift of Exploration, 250 Obsidian Shards), can we have a system introduced to “salvage” the Gift of Mastery to receive these components back?

Before I’m flamed for this, I realize, my decision to make a Gift of Mastery was hasty and perhaps wasn’t wise. I had made the incorrect assumption that the Legendaries would be made with a similar recipe as my previous 9 legendaries. I had wrongfully assumed that I would simply need the precursor weapon and the weapon Gift. I don’t feel like ANET owes me a system like this, but I do think it would be really nice, considering that I hardly imagine that I’m the only one who thought to prepare for a new HoT legendary by making parts that EVERY legendary thus far has required.

What I’m proposing wouldn’t make the market saturated with legendaries or be unfair, it would simply let me reclaim ingredients I had already earned so that I can use them properly for the new recipes.

I feel for you, bro.

It’s just that I already have 9 legendaries, pretty much all of the ones I wanted to have from the original set. I could use my Gift of Mastery to make another one, but I’d much rather have a way to get back my component parts so that I could make a new legendary. Getting a new legendary was kinda the whole point.

You could always make and sell one. You can make a fair bit of profit from selling a legendary which would let you buy back all your mats and have extra gold left over.

The biggest loss would be the world completion, but that isn’t used for the new legendary weapons anyway so you don’t need it.

Alot of different mats go into forging a single gift, the gift of fortune for example needs 9 stacks of ectos and t6 mats, so instead of taking up 9 inventory slots, i could just forge the gift of fortune, save 8 slots and break it up again, once i need the mats.

I think its your own fault because you made something in order to craft something you dont even know the recipe for.

Wanze, you’re not wrong. I included that into my original post. I had hastily assumed that the legendaries would need similar requirements, but I still think it’d be nice if they could include a system to break the components back down. I’m certainly not holding my breath for such a system, but it is a bit of a bummer that I am basically back at square one, despite farming for a while to prepare for HoT.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

You could always make and sell one. You can make a fair bit of profit from selling a legendary which would let you buy back all your mats and have extra gold left over.

The biggest loss would be the world completion, but that isn’t used for the new legendary weapons anyway so you don’t need it.

What, world completion isn’t required for the new ones?

THANK BUDDHA GANESHA ALMIGHTY.

You just saved me a good bit of gold since I was gonna buy Howler outright and save gift of exploration for the new legendary.

Now I can just craft my Howler Precursor.