Guild Wars 2

I just bought a full set of light armor from the PvP vendor with Shards of Glory and Ascended Shards of Glory, with the intention to change the stats to Viper’s in the Mystic Forge for my necromancer/reaper, only to find out the MF recipe doesn’t work on this set…

I feel kinda screwed now.

Please Anet, look in to this and fix it. I’d really like to use Viper’s gear for my necromancer and it would be a shame if I bought this set of ascended armor for nothing (well, not nothing, I could always give it to my elementalist, but still).

It´s a known issue that the PvP ascended stats can´t be changed. But you can select all stats so is bad to just select “something”. I directly made a commander set out of it what i wanted for my warrior. I had one ascended box from a drop with carrion where i selected the vest part and changed it in the forge.

Wait, you can pick all the stats, including HoT stats?

… I’m a kitten…

I really wanted Viper’s gear but I assumed that like with the Fractals ascended armor you could only pick core Tyria stats…

I hope Anet will change it so I can use the PvP armor in the MF though, I really want those Viper’s stats.

There have been a number of ANet comments to the effect that this is a bug, and they intend to fix it.

Submit a ticket. They usually help you when you mess up selecting stats or gear you did not intend to. It helped me with a pair of gloves, support is really good in this game.

On the other hand this non-MF issue with PvP ascended gear must be addressed ASAP by ANET.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

Wait, you can pick all the stats, including HoT stats?

… I’m a kitten…

I really wanted Viper’s gear but I assumed that like with the Fractals ascended armor you could only pick core Tyria stats…

I hope Anet will change it so I can use the PvP armor in the MF though, I really want those Viper’s stats.

The tooltip states

Central Tyria and Maguuma Ascended Breastplate

This item allows selection of stats. See below for a list of available prefixes.
Upgrade Slot.png Unused Upgrade Slot
Infusion Slot Unused Infusion Slot

Now from there I would put a support ticket in and see if they will assist you.