Guild Wars 2

Right now, if a player earns a fractal weapon, it has the base damage of an Exotic, but it doesn’t have any stats. This is done because the goal has always been to transmute the desired stats onto the fractal weapon skin. The problem is that this requires the player to use a Transmutation Crystal every time they want to make use of a fractal weapon. With current market prices, transmuting a weapon costs 40 gems, or 2 gold. Something similar happens with cultural armor, the t3 armors which cost 100+ gold do not have maximum stats. For example, the heavy armor gives 1071 defense instead of 1211. Transmuting a set of cultural armor costs 240 gems, or 12 gold.

Both of these setups are less than ideal. Please turn fractal weapons and cultural armor into one-time-use skins that can be used without transmutation crystals.

Thank you.

I would be in favor of this. If they’re supposed to be elite aesthetic items only (which people are quick to point out every time someone complains about the price of T3 Cultural armor) then make them exactly that. Skins. They’re expensive / hard enough to get to warrant a “free” transmutation by making them skins instead of requiring an extra transmute on top of the price.

Agreed. Never understood why they’d make the most expensive pure-gold purchased armor rare quality. A skin would be right on.

the answer:
“Transmutation Crystal”

= money for anet

Yay.

/15quaggans.

You waited an entire month to say ‘yay’?

hey he said

Yay.

/15quaggans

Also I’d rather be able to boost fractal weapons up to ascended o.o