Guild Wars 2

How does ascension work for back items that are transmuted like the Karka shell? I put the skin on an exotic back. If I ascend the shell will it revert back to its original stats or can it even be ascended?

Gnat.9405:

How does ascension work for back items that are transmuted like the Karka shell? I put the skin on an exotic back. If I ascend the shell will it revert back to its original stats or can it even be ascended?

If you put the karka shell back skin to another exotic back, you will basicly get that back item but with different looks. If that e.g. is a temple armor back piece that means it cant be ascended.

If the exotic back piece is e.g. the fractal capacitator, you can ascend it in the mystic forge using the recipe for the capacitator, it will end up looking like the capacitator again and will loose the looks.

When transmutating and only keeping the skin tkittenence of the original item is destroyed and you loose all possibility’s

I’m not so sure you could even put a transmuted fractal capacitor in the MF to infuse/ascend it.
last I heard, transmuted sunrise/twlight can’t be forged into eternity…

A transmuted item counts as the item providing the stats for the purpose of being used in the MF.

Mystic.5934:

I’m not so sure you could even put a transmuted fractal capacitor in the MF to infuse/ascend it.
last I heard, transmuted sunrise/twlight can’t be forged into eternity…

Very likely, though as far as I know untested, when you have e.g. sunrise and transmutate it to have the looks of e.g. a zweihander, you can still use it to create eternity, cause the essence (the stats) is still unchanged, the ability to change in the mystic forge is normally bound to the stats.

However, where to find someone willing to risk this to test it out??

For the situation I described in my previous post it has been tested and proven to work this way.