Guild Wars 2

One of the great things in Guild Wars 2 is the concept of customizing your look with cool skins. Acquiring some of these skins is what most of the players that reach end-game are trying to achieve. After spending hard hours doing the requirements to get a certain piece, a player might decide to change to a new skin. After applying a new skin, the player loses their hard earned work.

My suggestion is this: create a bank that will permanently keep the skin after the player soul binds the specific item. For example, any of the Ascalonian Helm (doesn’t matter which stat set), it will add the skin into your bank. Later on the player can equip the Flame Legion Helm and get that skin. In the future, if they get tired of the Flame Legion Helm skin, they can just change back to Ascalonian Helm. Only items of exotic or higher quality would have their skin saved.

This concept already exists for the Unlocked Rewards from achievements, where you just double click the skin and it appears in your inventory as often as you want.

The downside is that players who have already discarded previous skins will not be able to access them if the system is implemented (unless previously equipped items are tracked somewhere).

If implemented, I also suggest the skin bank to be character bound, so skins would not be shared between different characters. This is in order to promote doing a previously completed dungeon with a different character class that uses the same armor.

For ArenaNet: This can easily be profitable. The equipment skin bank can have limited slots, which can be expanded through gems. Also, equipment’s skins could have to be extracted by using a transmutation crystal or something of the sort (extraction crystal?), promoting gem sales.

Please put this into consideration, as the other players I’ve talked to about this concept are as interested as I am. With this, a player would not have to regret trying out a new look, and players with fuller banks would have something to brag about.

I know there is always the option of keeping multiple sets of gear, but this way a player can easily change from one set of stats (say berserkers) over to another (say soldiers) and keep their skins.

tl;dr System to use previously earned skins

This has been suggested so many times

Yeup. Sometimes playing this game is messy. But you get by. One day at a time. /cartman cop voice