Guild Wars 2

I’m sure this has been mentioned and suggested before. But I haven’t seen a topic on it so far and can’t seem to find one searching. So this is being made. The recent focus on aura items has seen a shift almost exclusively to infusions. This took place with Raid infusions, with Super Adventure Box infusions, the Phospholuminescent infusion, and now the Winter’s Heart Infusion. Given the increased ability to gain ascended drops, as well as the conversion away from offensive and defensive infusion slots, I’d really like to see older exotic jewel auras converted to infusions.

I know the title says Preserved Queen Bee, but I’d also like to see this with Poly-Luminescent Jewels too. The stats within these jewels are not useful on almost any class, and they serve almost no purpose overall to any build. Very few builds utilized celestial stats actively. I’d really just like to have a reason to use these old aura jewels. I’d drop 2,000 gold this very second on a Preserved Queen Bee if it was an infusion.

As I said, I’m sure it’s been suggested before, but I wanna suggest it again if it has. These aura items are just not as widely used because the both require exotic gear and have garbage stats. It’d be nice to see them revamped so they have a use in the current game.

I think a better solution to this problem going forward is to have one or more aura slots in the wardrobe. When you obtain an item that has an aura (like the preserved queen bee), the aura is unlocked in your wardrobe and you can equip it whenever you want. This would allow you to wear these “exotic” auras with ascended gear, or the “ascended” auras from infusions with exotic gear if you wanted to.

Thumbs up for this suggestion! I’d also like the Koda’s Warmth enrichment to get converted to an infusion (probably a statted version, given the high cost of making it) too. I think the effect would look amazing on my Charr Warrior (especially with his black/red colour scheme), but I don’t need a 15% karmic boost when I’m already swimming in 10 million karma (yes, you read that right) and I would rather keep my Gilded enrichment.

That said, I agree that we definitely need some kind of option that allows us to toggle infusions and auras on/off. I’m not sure if I’d go as far as making it wardrobe-based, however, since that would essentially kill the market for things like the Winter’s Heart and other cosmetic infusions.

Zaxares.5419:

Thumbs up for this suggestion! I’d also like the Koda’s Warmth enrichment to get converted to an infusion (probably a statted version, given the high cost of making it) too. I think the effect would look amazing on my Charr Warrior (especially with his black/red colour scheme), but I don’t need a 15% karmic boost when I’m already swimming in 10 million karma (yes, you read that right) and I would rather keep my Gilded enrichment.

That said, I agree that we definitely need some kind of option that allows us to toggle infusions and auras on/off. I’m not sure if I’d go as far as making it wardrobe-based, however, since that would essentially kill the market for things like the Winter’s Heart and other cosmetic infusions.

How would it kill the market? You would still have to obtain the infusion that has the aura before being able to apply it.

It would cut down a lot on demand, because players who like the aura no longer need to obtain one for each of their armor sets. In the short term, prices would be kept high due to collectors, but over time a “one and done” system eventually leads to fall in prices, as what happened with dyes (see what happened to the price of Celestial, Abyss and Shadow Abyss after easy ways to obtain them were introduced) and to (non-gold) miniatures. (In the case of dyes, the only thing keeping the price of Common and Uncommon dyes at a fair level is the fact that you can Forge them to get random other dyes, including Rares.)

Despite that, I wouldn’t be UPSET if infusions/auras got switched to a wardrobe system. (I think the Wardrobe was the best feature of GW2 ever introduced, even over autoloot.) I’m just thinking about how such a change might affect the high-end markets with respect to the economy.

Oh I see now. Hadn’t considered that aspect. How about separate aura item slots then? Any item that has an aura could be equipped in those slots, you wouldn’t gain any stats from them (though this might necessitate removing the auras from the infusions proper) but the aura would still show. This would allow players to use exotic auras with ascended gear (or vice versa) without killing the market since you would still need to have an aura item to equip.

Still would really like to see this happen. Any variation of it, really. An aura slot would be just as nice.

Either that or expand jewelcrafting to 500 and add a method of placing jewel slots in ascended gear.

Might be a power creep issue but it’s a method that doesn’t require a wardrobe system

I’m against auras in wardrobe because a they may try to lock us into a set number of auras at one time. Right now the skies the limit if you can equip it you get the aura. Gems, infusions, legendaries, buffs, and skills the limit we can show shouldn’t be limited to an aura slot.

Maybe tie adding slots to an expansion that would naturally need some form of power creep.

@Doam – it wouldn’t be that difficult to add an aura slot to every slot, just like how every slot has an infusion slot and every armor slot has a rune slot. It might be cluttered, but it wouldn’t be hard to do that.