Guild Wars 2

Hi! newbie here. i just bought a costume on gem shop. i was wondering if i can use them on all items or do they get stuck on 1 item after transmuting them. thx in advance

Well when you use the skins and add them to an item, the skin is gone so in that sense it’s stuck on one item.

But you can use transmute stones to move your costume skin from that item to a future one.

Like if you bought the gem shop profane armor and added the leg skin to some level 20 legs, you could later on transmute that skin to level 40 legs. Then from the lev 40 legs to level 80 legs. Long as you have more transmute stones.

It does take special “fine transmute” stones to transmute level 80 things though. But at any rate, you can move the skin around to different items.

Thank you very much for that detailed info. one more question. where can i get those stones?

John Smith.4610:

High level stones only come from black lion chests and gemstore I believe.

My characters will be forever ugly because of this. I wish there was another means of acquisition.

You get one key, early on in the storyline, which you can use on the plethora of BL chests that drop. Cross your fingers and hope for the best.

I have some in my inventory which I believe came as part of a map completion, as I have not seen any come out of a BL chest and I’ve never bought them…

thank you so much guys

Don’t know about anyone here, but in the months since release, I’ve gotten enough fine transmution stones to kit out 4 character in armour i wanted for them. And i still have enough for one more character, extra armour on my main, and various weapon for them. haven’t spent a single gem on them either.

I had to buy a 25 pack of these things once, and I have never, ever seen a fine transmutation stone from anything else in the game on my account, regardless of the number of BL keys I’ve gotten from story steps or what-not. Meanwhile, I think I have 2 stacks of the garbage transmutation stones.

Rising Dusk.2408:

John Smith.4610:

High level stones only come from black lion chests and gemstore I believe.

My characters will be forever ugly because of this. I wish there was another means of acquisition.

They aren’t that expensive, it’s 5 of them for 250 gems. There’s some cheaper deals in there if you get more than 5 (25 of them is 800 gems I think?). It’s not a big deal doing gold to gems and getting the fine transmutation stones that way.

BobbyT.7192:

Don’t know about anyone here, but in the months since release, I’ve gotten enough fine transmution stones to kit out 4 character in armour i wanted for them. And i still have enough for one more character, extra armour on my main, and various weapon for them. haven’t spent a single gem on them either.

Same for me. I know I’ve gotten all of mine from map completion which seems to have a small chance for fine stones.

Rising Dusk.2408:

John Smith.4610:

High level stones only come from black lion chests and gemstore I believe.

My characters will be forever ugly because of this. I wish there was another means of acquisition.

Absolutely agree. Earlier on b4 the additions to the blc they were more common. Now they seem to one of the rarer drops from blc’s. This inturn makes the gem shop the only reliable/sufficient way of obtaining them.

As a player with 9 lvl 80s I have zero use for the multitude of regular transmutation stones I receive from map completions. They don’t even vendor so they are more of a hindrance than anything else. I’d rather get t5 leather if that says anything. I really wish they would add an option to turn regular stones in fine even at a rate of 25:1, would please me immensely vs current option of right click/destroy.

Also, daily achievements sometimes randomly award selected black lion items, including transmutation stones.