Guild Wars 2

So, not gonna lie; I’ve played the game a bit, but I’m still very much noobish. Something that is both exciting, yet also fills me with dread, is the idea of transmuting armor and weapons to look different.

The benefits are obvious, but my major concerns are that A) I’ll screw up and transmute “the wrong way”, destroying the item I want to keep, and that I won’t be able to hold onto all the great-looking designs that might be unique to a single item.

I don’t know what the best solution would be, but perhaps there might be some way to “store” item-designs, or “unlock” them to avoid the fear of accidentally vendoring a cool-looking, statistically-useless item?

Anyways, not sure how anyone else feels on this, but personally, it’d make things a lot more exciting to level a character up.

Transmute the same way every time to avoid accidents. I always put the item that I want to retain the LOOKS of on the left hand side.

L = Left
L = Looks

A good solution, definitely. I suppose I’m just of the mind that, if you’re going to allow us to customize our appearance, why not just make all options (that we’ve earned/unlocked) available?

I mean, still keep whatever cost to transmute in place, but like I said; if they could open up another tab in your bank, similar to how you store all of you ingredients, and dedicated to each unique item-graphic, that would just absolutely rock.

Also, to conserve at least a little space server-side, maybe adding an item to your “Wardrobe” Collection would actually destroy the item itself, preserving only its graphic to use on transmuting?

That way, A) you get slightly less bloat in this browsing this Wardrobe-UI, as there will only be one “item” per appearance, and it could inspire a new type of gameplay, hunting down item-graphics you don’t yet possess.

Honestly, if you simply take your time and pay attention to what your doing, it will never be a problem.