Guild Wars 2

So here is the thing.

I recreated a guardian because I wanted to change her race but had 5 ascended weapons on my former guard.

Since I want to do HL fractals I have to get those weapons on my new character so I wanted to do the following :

-transmute the ascended weapon “inside” a common weapon -> account bound common weapon
-use a transmutation breaker on this weapon on my character to get the ascended weapon soulbound for this character

But I was very surprised to see that an ascended weapon cannot be transmuted “inside” a common weapon : the tooltip is saying something like “the statistics item cannot receive that upgrade” (rough translation from french, sorry for that) and does not allow the transmutation to complete.

This leaves me with 5 unneeded transmutation splitters for the moment.

I already have a support ticket regarding this issue and the guy basically said “soulbound items are meant to be soulbound so you are on your own on this”. He offers to transfer my ticket to try and get a refund on the splitters though.

Now here comes my questions : is it intended for ascended weapons not to allow this technique or should I consider this as a bug ? I need an answer to decide whether I ask for a refund and restart crafting weapons or wait for this to be fixed.

I read some people saying they could transfer legendaries with this technique (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Splitter under discussion) and ascended are just fixed-stat legendaries so I wonder how this was possible. This wiki article is the reason why I bought those splitters and tried this in the first place

That technique is used to preserve your items’ skins by sacrificing their stats. Not the other way around.

Fenrir is mistaken, that procedure does indeed work to pass a soulbound ascended weapon, the issue is different.

Use a level 80 white/blue item instead of the one you are currently using. You’re likely using a Superior Sigil in the weapon, and trying to put that in a level <60 item, which is what is causing the problem.

I just checked this with an exotic staff + bound ascended staff. It seems fine to me. However I don’t have anything in the infusion slots. So it is either what Da Sonic said or it is because you have infusions in your weapon and the game has nowhere to put the infusions.

I may have misunderstood what the OP meant, so, in light of this new evidence, I stand corrected.

I was convinced the problem was the infusion slots !

Thank you so much for your clarifications about the sigils, I never suspected that^^

Merry Christmas to you all

EDIT : I just finished using my splitters and wanted to warn you all. I couldn’t get all my weapons transfered because I didn’t know how already transmuted weapon would work with this. Just understand this : only the skin applied on the white item tells what weapon is remembered. If you transmute an ascended weapon with an exotic skin on a common weapon you’ll get the exotic weapon. Anyway I just have a single weapon to craft now, I can do this