Ascended Armor and Dyes
I like this idea, but if the armor is as ugly as the weapons, most people will probably transmute them anyway.
Yeah that was my thought (I personally intend on transmuting) but maybe with a dye incentive more people will make armor that is interesting enough to want to show off.
Ascended armor is a pretty solid eyesore, I doubt you’ll see a lot of people running around with it. Now if transmuting regular armor to have ascended stats unlocked additional dye channels then we’d have something a lot better than some painfully marginal stat increase as a reason to get ascended armor.