Guild Wars 2

Currently there are two conflicting facts that prevents me (and probably many like minded players) from spending more in the cash shop:

1) The game mandates multiple characters for better enjoyment.
2) Skins cost a lot of gems, and are single use.

I am proposing the following:

1) Make cash shop skins account-wide unlockable, and infinite use
The rationale is simple. They are expensive, especially considering there’s light/medium/heavy variations.

2) Add an item that converts an equipment into an account-wide, unlockable skin
Let’s face the fact of fashion. People want to change their look from time to time, and currently it is prohibitively expensive to do so: Once player is committed transmuting a particular (likely expensive) skin to their “everyday” equipment (ie. Lv80 Exotics at least), there is no going back. I think locking players into a specific look contradicts the whole “horizontal progression with aesthetics endgame” philosophy of GW2.

Also consider the progress of leveling a new character from lv1 to lv80 as an alt character. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend all those transmutation stones on armor sets that changes every five levels.

Obviously some equipment (such as Legendaries) may not allowed to proliferate per ANet’s discretion for their rarity… (although personally speaking, I feel the grind associated with getting a Legendary warrants an account-wide skin unlock.)

Yes, the transmutation stones would be fallen out of use if something like this is to be implemented… and if that happens, I won’t say I miss them much. Lastly, please excuse me if someone posted similar suggestions before.