Why does ascended PvP & WvW armour not work for legendary when it's (edit) Stat changed?

Yes, I forgot when I wanted to try the 6th birthday skin :'( This seems like something that should be really easy to fix, even if there was an item you need to buy?

It should work and it should give you the message that it is transmuted and will work as the original item in the forge.

Alternatively you just lose a few transmutation charges, which are given away like candy anyway

Erm, it does. oO You'll get a "Warning, this item is transmuted and will function in the Mystic Forge as X"This means I can still use it to forge the Legendary version of the item.However, it wont work if you have stat-changed it... Because stat changing will destroy the original item and substitute a generic Ascended Armor/Weapon piece with the Stat you chose.

@"Haleydawn.3764" said:However, it wont work if you have stat-changed it... Because stat changing will destroy the original item and substitute a generic Ascended Armor/Weapon piece with the Stat you chose.

Thanks, I thought it was when transmuted. I wonder if it could somehow be applied to stat changed armour though? Like with a "restoration kit" along the lines of an ascended salvage kit. It would be something we could spend our spare spirit shards on :)

Stat-changing by forging removes the item in question and creates a new one. That new one is a generic ascended (Illustrious armor set in case of armors). For your suggestion to work, Anet would need to introduce separate recipes for WvW and SPvP armors, ones that would work similarily to the current ascended armor stat changing ones, but give as a result a WvW/SPvP armor.No idea how hard would that be.

@"Astralporing.1957" said:Stat-changing by forging removes the item in question and creates a new one. That new one is a generic ascended (Illustrious armor set in case of armors). For your suggestion to work, Anet would need to introduce separate recipes for WvW and SPvP armors, ones that would work similarily to the current ascended armor stat changing ones, but give as a result a WvW/SPvP armor.No idea how hard would that be.

A better option would be to implement something similar to(or simply reuse) https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mist_Capacitor that lets you reset the stat selection for the WvW/PvP ascended items. That avoids having to create a pile of recipes and the need to maintain/update every time a new stat gets added to the game.

@Khisanth.2948 said:

@"Astralporing.1957" said:Stat-changing by forging removes the item in question and creates a new one. That new one is a generic ascended (Illustrious armor set in case of armors). For your suggestion to work, Anet would need to introduce separate recipes for WvW and SPvP armors, ones that would work similarily to the current ascended armor stat changing ones, but give as a result a WvW/SPvP armor.No idea how hard would that be.

Yes, that would be great!

@Khisanth.2948 said:

@"Astralporing.1957" said:Stat-changing by forging removes the item in question and creates a new one. That new one is a generic ascended (Illustrious armor set in case of armors). For your suggestion to work, Anet would need to introduce separate recipes for WvW and SPvP armors, ones that would work similarily to the current ascended armor stat changing ones, but give as a result a WvW/SPvP armor.No idea how hard would that be.

Well, the upgrading of the PvP/WvW Ascended Armor pieces to Legendary quality would do this anyway. That’s the point of those pieces, because they’re Precursors.It’s pretty common knowledge now that the Mystic Forge destroys what you throw into it. This info is easy to find. Offering “free” stat changes to those Precursor Armor pieces kind of makes upgrading them to Legendary quality almost redundant.

@Haleydawn.3764 said:

@Khisanth.2948 said:

@"Astralporing.1957" said:Stat-changing by forging removes the item in question and creates a new one. That new one is a generic ascended (Illustrious armor set in case of armors). For your suggestion to work, Anet would need to introduce separate recipes for WvW and SPvP armors, ones that would work similarily to the current ascended armor stat changing ones, but give as a result a WvW/SPvP armor.No idea how hard would that be.

Nobody said free. Assuming you have spirit shards transmuting costs less than 10g anyhow, so maybe 3-5 capacitors (price of shard of glory would probably go up). The big thing is losing the chance to turn something into a legendary, and having to wait until you farm enough to complete your legendary while being stuck with ascended that you can't change, or having to make another set to get the stats you need.

@Faffin.6741 said:

@Haleydawn.3764 said:

@Khisanth.2948 said:

@"Astralporing.1957" said:Stat-changing by forging removes the item in question and creates a new one. That new one is a generic ascended (Illustrious armor set in case of armors). For your suggestion to work, Anet would need to introduce separate recipes for WvW and SPvP armors, ones that would work similarily to the current ascended armor stat changing ones, but give as a result a WvW/SPvP armor.No idea how hard would that be.

Stat reset also wouldn't allow for rune changes unlike the legendary

It's because you're getting new armor from. The mystic Forge. Instead of mist ward etc, you get Zoja's whatever.