Guild Wars 2

Transmutation is all well and good for fancy equipment appearances, and I have no complaint against that.
That said, for cheaper equipment, I have grown tired of looking at the abstract sculpture known as a “pearl sabre” and would like a sword that just looks like a generic sword instead. It’s an annoyance, but not enough of one to be worth the cost of fine transmutation stones or a completely new exotic sword.

Make it so that equipment crafters can create “skin” items (such as those from HoM) for the various existing craftable items.
A recipe should be available from the craft NPCs to make just the skin for a piece of equipment using just the materials.
For example, an orichalcum sword blade and hilt, using such a recipe, could create a “level 80” sword skin that could be applied to any sword of level 80 or below. The varieties from crafter NPCs would be limited strictly to those that can be crafted already at other levels or qualities, such as the krait machete (80 rare crafted) or the generic sword (5 fine crafted).

The result would be that cheap items can easily be made to look like other cheap items to fit a particular aesthetic a bit better without investing in fine transmutation stones best saved for something fancier.