Guild Wars 2

Hello,
Just wanted to make sure I understand this correctly just so that I know.

I was considering buying gems in order to buy a skin for at least one of my characters and just wanted to make sure I understood correctly the description. It says a one time use/application of the skin to replace any given piece of gear on a character.

Therefore, does this mean the character should be level 80 before one buys a skin for its armor – once it has what will likely be its final gear equipped because the skin only applies “once” as in once to whatever particular piece it’s already wearing when you do it? Or in other words there’s no point in getting skin till level 80 because if you’re below that, one is bound to get better items as one is leveling up and so the skin will not be any use if used earlier?

Thanks

It is true that the skin can only be applied once, as a skin. However, you can transmute it as many times as you want thereafter, using transmutation stones (for under level 80 items) and transmutation crystals (for level 80 items). So there’s no reason not to buy it for your sub-level-80 in my opinion, as the transmutation stones are free and plentiful from zone completions and dailies and the like. I bought the Phoenix armor for my level 41 mesmer and she is very happy in it. Whenever she gets a new set of armor, I just transmute the skin onto the new set.

The one reason to hold off would be if you have no fine transmutation stones and no means of getting them. If that is the case, then you would want to wait until you had your “final” level 80 exotic armor set to use the skins. However, keep in mind that ascended armor will be coming out next year sometime, so “final” is relative.

Wait til when u hit 80 then buy skins other wise there will be times where u woukld accidently delete skins u bought from TP.