Guild Wars 2

^ Title (edit: Should be “Unused skins” not “Both skins”)

One of the major issues I have with transmuting is the destruction of the unused stats and appearance. That I have to choose to destroy the look of one item completely when transmuting.

Basically, the problem as I see it is that there’s the potential to have to grind to reacquire either the looks or the stats of an item if we ever decide we want a new look… but don’t want to lose our old one. This is especially apparent if we want the looks of multiple dungeon sets – we either need to work hard on getting the same stats we already have (to have both looks), or we have to grind dungeons for an entire set we’ve already obtained once if we want to go back to an old look.

What I’m asking for is some way to retain at the very least the skin of the item we don’t keep (as a consumable that works like a transmute interface, returning the unused skin of that combination and so on), if not having the transmutation process return two items – LookA+StatsB+(Optional)UpgradeA/B, and LookB+StatsA+(Optional)UpgradeB/A

Or alternately a new transmutation stone that creates a “Skin” item which is permanently saved to either the character or the account and can be accessed from something like the PvP locker, except in PvE – so this super stone gives a skin item which is consumed like a dye, and then lets us take an infinite number of skins from the PvE locker of that type (the same way dyes are forever once used). Of course the skins would account-bind any item they’re used on so this can’t be used for profit.

There could be minor costs to using these skins like paying a few gems to withdraw them from the locker, but ultimately what’s important is the skin isn’t permanently destroyed – we shouldn’t have to grind out a set for appearance more than once.

thats the price of transmuting, nothing wrong with it.