Guild Wars 2

If you upgrade one of the back items to an infused version, do you lose the skin you had applied to it, or does that transfer onto the new one?

I’m pretty sure you lose it, because you destroy the old item and make a new one in the Mystic Forge.

Can you even use the recipe if they have a different skin?

I’m pretty sure you can’t even put transmuted ascended back-pieces into the mystic forge, so no you won’t lose the skin, because you cant upgrade it to infused anyways.

I may be wrong, the only way to check is to open the mystic forge and see if it appears as a forge-able item.

Just checked, and I can still throw my Ascended Plush Quaggan Backpack into the forge with the materials to infuse it with that 5 AR.

I can’t confirm if accepting will lose the skin as I don’t care about the 5 AR, but at least I can tell you it’s possible to upgrade.

Hopefully someone can shed further light on this.

Flissy.4093:

Just checked, and I can still throw my Ascended Plush Quaggan Backpack into the forge with the materials to infuse it with that 5 AR.

I can’t confirm if accepting will lose the skin as I don’t care about the 5 AR, but at least I can tell you it’s possible to upgrade.

Hopefully someone can shed further light on this.

Do it for science!

Unless they have changed that recently, I can confirm that you will lose your skin.

A few months back, I had the Quiver of Swift Flight on my mesmer. I applied the Wintersday bag skin to it. Later, I decided to upgrade my back piece to the Infused version. The Mystic Forge accepted the back piece. The resulting quiver did not have the old skin.

So yeah, it creates a new item and thus you lose the skin.

You loose it. I lost my halloween fire book.