Guild Wars 2

Hi ! Since the update of the 26th february, my girdlfrien found a problem with transmutation’s stones.

If we take a white item, without rune slot, like my “Anonymity Mask”, and would like to transmute on my fresh new lvl80 exotic mask… no way to keep the rune.
I had nothing to test further to know if we lose only the rune or really lose the rune slot.

Is it intended as a new change ? Or a bug ?
If it’s a change, it’s, pardon me the word but hey, stupid ! Why can’t i keep my start mask ?

thats cuz ur transmuting on a white.

White has no rune to carry over, and cant accept a rune.
If you want a rune slot on it, you would need to transmute another exotic over it.

Then you will get the exotic stats + rune slot.

The only reason why u would want to transmute an exotic to a white, is when you want the exotic to become account bound so u can transfer it onto another character.

However u still need to transmute a exotic over it if you wanted exotic stats.

Meaning u need to use up 2 transmutation stones to transfer an item which is soul bounded to another character on the same account.

Thank you. But i don’t care about giving an item from one char. to another.

I know it’s a white. I know how it was working before the 26th february.
My mesmer kept his starter mask, transmuted on an exotic lvl80 WITH a slot rune.

Now my thief is ready to do the same… BUT they changed the way the transmutation works.
I’m asking if it’s a BUG or an intentional CHANGE.

If you kept the stats of the Exotic, it should keep the sigil/rune slot as well…

Even if it works, even if it keeps the slot rune, there is still a display bug or a lck of informations in the procedure and it must be reviewed by officials.
I won’t break an exotic just to test. They have to repair it.

I may be mistaken on this whole issue but this is what came to mind…try to transmute the white mask to a blue that has an empty upgrade slot available. Then the blue mask to the exotic. That’s how I’ve always understood it to work but then again, like I said, I might be mistaken.

Ok, i bought a cheap blue one with a cheap rune and did a test.
It’s a display bug, maybe even with the exotic so.
When i was transmutating, no rune was showed. But the rune slot is here after the transmutation.