Guild Wars 2

My wife also plays GW2 and she transmuted the Lightning Catcher skin onto her Ascended backpiece awhile back. Yesterday she attempted to infuse the backpiece in the Forge and it removed (and deleted) the skin.

Is this supposed to happen?

In theory it doesn’t make any sense why it would.

She has submitted a ticket to Anet. Is she going to get her skin back? Can this be done?

Thanks guys.

I’m sorry to say but this is how it’s always been. Probably some limitation that ANET can’t get around.

On a semi-related note, the Light of Dwayna still can’t be infused… kinda annoying considering how ridiculously expensive it is.

I’m afraid that Juclesia is correct. If you attempt to infuse a skinned Capacitor, the MF will still recognise it and give you its infused version along with its default skin. It’s even in the wiki.

I say, tell your wife to make a support ticket and see if they’re willing to help with that.

Best of luck!

Well, the underlying issue is probably that:

If they prevented it from being used in the recipe, then people would complain “Why can’t I infuse my backpiece?!”

And, unfortunately, there aren’t special recipe exemptions for skinned items.