Guild Wars 2

I’m not asking for more different legendaries in this thread, though obviously those will be nice. This is suggesting a minimal ‘wardrobe’ functionality.

In the recent blog post, it was said Legendary gear would get the option to change to any set of stats out of combat. This is obviously an extremely desirable functionality, that would justify making legendaries beyond merely the desire for their skins. Perhaps even in spite of their skins. Certainly, you can transmute other skins onto the legendary, but that will permanently remove the legendary’s “natural” skin, which many players would be unwilling to do. Moreover, due to the functionality (and presumed stat increase above exotic when ascended weapons, etc, are released), players who have legendaries will be discouraged from using other weapons, with other skins.

This, then, is my suggestion: each piece of legendary gear would be able to have a single alternate skin. This would be obtained by transmuting another item (or using a consumable skin) onto the gear as usual… but instead of deleting the ‘natural’ skin of the legendary, it would apply only to the alternate slot. This alternate slot could be transmuted as often as desired; while the natural skin would be unaffected. Players could change between the two appearances in the same manner as however the stat change will be done.

Certainly, more than one alternate skin would be good, but I think that would be going too far towards a player wardrobe, which so far the devs haven’t really wanted to implement.