Guild Wars 2

I’ve transmuted several high-level armor skins onto low level armor, but I am having a problem doing that with the exotic Duelist armor (which is the PvP medium armor named Leather (1)). On the talk page link on the wiki page for transmutation, this comment had been added:

•I was going to give a particular example of what doesn’t work and left me scratching my head as to why. I had a 46-rare boot with an aug I no longer wanted but the boot was still the best I’d seen up to that point. I had a 6-stat set rune (GW2 has set runes rather than set gear) that I wanted to put in it. Trying to apply the rune atop the old one did not work so I figured maybe transmutation would do it. Eventually it worked (about the 6th repeat try) but up to that point, when I’d get my selections finished (same ones that eventually worked) it would say:
“stat item cannot use that upgrade”
and I’d just have to back out. Never figured out if, or what, I did differently to get it to work but it did eventually take my choices and I completed the transmutation.
So the short story is: there may be some bugs, if you’re pretty sure it should work, keep trying. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Whroc of Ehrmy Bay (talk). **

Has anyone run into this problem, or know if there’s a way around it? It seems like Whroc of Ehrmy Bay got around it through perseverance, but even he/she was confused as to what was done differently the 6th time around. Based off the instructions provided on the wiki page for transmutation, it should be possible, but I’m running into the same issue — I dump the exotic Duelist armor into left-hand window, low-level armor into right, click on the image of the Duelist armor and it shifts to center, click on the stats for the low-level armor and it shifts to center, and then all that’s left is the upgrade section of the Duelist armor. There is no upgrade for the low-level armor — I wonder, is that the problem? Because I keep getting the same error, “stat item cannot use that upgrade”.

Any suggestions?

Superior rune sets have level requirements for the item that the rune is being applied to (level 60 according to the wiki). That may be what is causing this issue, since your armor is only level 46.

Adding the Rune of Life onto the low-level armor pieces allowed me to complete the transmutation.