Guild Wars 2

I’ve been wondering for some time.
Gemstore outfits don’t use transmutation charges.
Zenith, Radiant, Hellfire, don’t use charges.

Why do gemstore armors, that we bought with hard earned money, use charges?

They come with the first charge for free, all other times it’ll cost a charge. It was true before the wardrobe change as well. Outfits don’t allow mix and matching but can be dyed and just temporarily change your appearance. Achievement based ones are don’t cost as part of the reward and I believe can’t be dyed.

Outfits aren’t armor-skins, they are outfits.
Zenith, Radiant and Hellfire are achievement skins, not bought skins.

Gemstore armors does have a free apply when you buy them, applying it after the first time does require charges though. The same as it was before they changed the system.

I understand that but wouldn’t it make sense that a skin that you have bought with real money wouldn’t require charges at all? I don’t know, this just seems logic to me.

You didn’t necessarily buy it with real money, you could have converted gold to gems and bought it that way.

A full set of top Tier cultural armour tends to be more costly than a gem shop set, and you’re forced to transmute every piece unless you want the stats it comes with (which aren’t even exotic). I’ve found it odd for a while you can’t purchase cultural armour as once-off application skins.

Zanshin.5379:

I understand that but wouldn’t it make sense that a skin that you have bought with real money wouldn’t require charges at all? I don’t know, this just seems logic to me.

But before if you wanted two character to wear the same Gem Store skin, you had to buy it twice. Now you can duplicate it at will for just the cost of transmutation charges.