Guild Wars 2

Currently cultural armor is probably the most expensive high end item in game considering what you’re getting out of it. 120g for rare quality armor that has one set of stats and no preloaded runes. Since you aren’t getting exotic quality stats, you can’t even reach full potential wearing these without transmuting them to begin with, so from the start you are basically purchasing an armor skin alone.

What I would like to see: Instead of buying armor, you would buy access to armorsmith that gives infinite amount of transmutation skins that behave like skins from Hall of monuments rewards.
1. This way every time I need to switch armor sets I can still wear my badkitten armor.
2. When Ascended armor rolls around, I don’t have to transmute my same armor again to keep the skin and stats, preventing wasting that exotic if I still like its different stats set compared to the new ascended stat set.
3. Crap, maybe I just accidently transmuted the old skin on top of the culture skin, essentially instantly wasting 12-30g on a single piece, when all I bought the armor for in the first place was for the skin.

Those of you who have cultural armor or plan on getting it, comment please. I would want to know if I’m asking for to much with this or if its reasonable.

I agree. 120G for a full set of rare armor (you’re probably wearing full exotic karma gear long before you ever get 120G together) is bad enough, having to get 6 fine transmutation stones to transfer the skin to your exotics makes it even worse.

Yes please. This makes far more sense than how it is currently implemented in the game.

Oh once your getting full ascended you’re going to spend another 6 stones, but thats fairly cheap, Ive already stock piled 25 of those. The problem is that you’re forced to deal with it and the waste of multiple exotic armor sets, a lot of time put into grinding, and a lot of gold, just for the sake of keeping the skin. Not to mention ascended armor will probably already have awesome skins, so you are more than likely going to have to choose between the culture skin and the ascended one or having to grind for two sets just so you transmute the culture skin, again. Its a pain to deal with is the only reason Im holding back from buying the set right now.

I support this enormously.