Transmutating components without salvaging?
I do not ever want to use a Black Lion Salvage Kit for this nor do I want to repay for the runes and sigils again.
This is your problem. These are the two solutions to your problem, and you have decided that neither one is applicable to you.
The more you play the more black lion kits you will get from dailies or map completions or black lion chests you open with keys from story 10/20/50. I think right now I have 8 stacks in my bank that I use only on exotics or items with superior runes that I want to use.
My tip : don’t use expensive runes before you have your level 80 gear.
Ruby or Smaragd Orbs or whatever do a good job for that and are much cheaper
Best MMOs are the ones that never make it. Therefore Stargate Online wins.
I do not ever want to use a Black Lion Salvage Kit for this nor do I want to repay for the runes and sigils again.
This is your problem. These are the two solutions to your problem, and you have decided that neither one is applicable to you.
It’s not like getting a Black Lion Salvage Kit is that rare. As long as you don’t use them as free replacements for Mystic Salvage Kits, you should have plenty with enough playtime. I know I have 7×25 in my bank.
I have 15 in the bank and 1 on each of my two characters. They drop about once a month from dailies. Got 1 less than a week ago.
RIP City of Heroes
I just don’t understand why now looks can be transmutable only and stats no more. Im that guy that wants to contribute to a dungeon and not be completely useless by upgrading myself as soon as possible. Because we can all admit here new people in dungeons can be frustrating with trash gear. Its also another thing that “Oh yeah! I just hit level 60! I have been waiting so much for some results and cool runes and sigils for so long with this new trait system now extremely hard to get traits now!” to be only told by this new system “heh, no buddy you want to redeem your runes and sigils? Buy them over again or waste hard to get kits that could be put to use on salvaging really expensive insignias.”
I don’t like wasting my Black Lion Salvage kits because I got kittened I had to sell Sneaktheif Armor with a 12 Gold Rune on it for 9 Because I had no Black Lion Salvage kit I was forced to use for a character that needed to upgrade his runes a while ago but now couldn’t cause this new system.
I just don’t understand why now looks can be transmutable only and stats no more.
Before you had to have two complete items to transfer skins and the side effect meant you had to choose which of the two items stats and upgrades you wanted to keep. This also meant you could “salvage” upgrades off of unsalvageable items. I’m going to assume that this was unintended and a fix would either be too time consuming to do or since they knew they were revamping the whole skinning system, a waste of manpower.
I’m going to also assume that this “loss” is entirely intentional. They always wanted a pure skinning system. That the preservation of upgrades was just something that happened by accident or that they soon realized was a mistake and needed it to be fixed. So instead of removing it immediately, they waited until there was a change in the skinning system to remove it.
RIP City of Heroes
I just don’t understand why now looks can be transmutable only and stats no more.
Before you had to have two complete items to transfer skins and the side effect meant you had to choose which of the two items stats and upgrades you wanted to keep. This also meant you could “salvage” upgrades off of unsalvageable items. I’m going to assume that this was unintended and a fix would either be too time consuming to do or since they knew they were revamping the whole skinning system, a waste of manpower.
I’m going to also assume that this “loss” is entirely intentional. They always wanted a pure skinning system. That the preservation of upgrades was just something that happened by accident or that they soon realized was a mistake and needed it to be fixed. So instead of removing it immediately, they waited until there was a change in the skinning system to remove it.
This.
Using a few uses of your Black Lion kit is not a huge sacrifice if it means preserving an expensive and powerful rune set.
Unless the item it’s in is unsalvageable, in which case you are SOL. Unless you want to buy and extractor.
RIP City of Heroes
I just don’t understand why now looks can be transmutable only and stats no more.
Transmuting stats (as long as we talk about weapons or armor) always meant that you first had to have the items with the old and the new stats, and then you needed to destroy one of these items.
Now you can keep both items if you want to have sets with different stats and just transmute the skin you want to them, or you can salvage the old one and have a change of ectos and dark matters if its 68+ stuff.
The only problem now are expensive runes, so think twice if you want to use some and change stats of your armor all days. But destroying armor sets also wasn’t really that cheap
Best MMOs are the ones that never make it. Therefore Stargate Online wins.
Unless the item it’s in is unsalvageable, in which case you are SOL. Unless you want to buy and extractor.
Agreed. This needs to be addressed (or at least commented on) by Anet.
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I am not opposed to making Karma/Badge/Token gear salvageable for upgrades only (i.e., no Ectos or materials). You’d still need the upgrade extractor for the infusions.
Of course, I’m also not really affected since I only socket cheap runes/sigils so buying a new set isn’t ever going to cost me more than 1g.
Unless the item it’s in is unsalvageable, in which case you are SOL. Unless you want to buy and extractor.
Agreed. This needs to be addressed (or at least commented on) by Anet.
And if they say it’s an intended change, then what? These threads won’t go away, they’ll just change into demanding a cheaper way of doing it than the extractor or making just the rune salvageable with a BLSK.
Also as someone who isn’t bothered by this, what’s the problem here. Are players putting in awesome upgrades into unsalvageable items and now want them back or are they buying unsalvageable items just to extract the upgrade?
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