Guild Wars 2

Can’t add the jewel upgrades to these back pieces. Is this intentional?

back pieces usually only allow you to equip extremely low level jewels, not even “Minor Rune of” is low enough – we’re talking level 1 jewelcrafting

Yeah, can’t add any upgrades to it. The back piece from the story missions has a max lvl jewel in it too. Makes no sense that they give one to us with a max upgrade, but we can’t add our own upgrade to it.

You cannot add upgrade components with a level requirement to gear with a lower level requirement (would allow your higher level characters to add very powerful gems to low level gear, then give it to your low level characters. Then imagine a level 20 with gear slotted with full exquisite ruby orbs getting scaled up for WvW… he’d have like 3000 power). Since the mad memories has no level requirement (effectively a level requirement of 1) you can only add the very lowest tier of jewels to it. You can transmute its appearance onto a higher level backup item and then add a better jewel to it, though.