Guild Wars 2

changed the name again. this time calling it the ESSENCE GEAR.
since Zerg collects essences to mutate life forms, abilities, so why not?

callidus.7085:

I would love to see this implemented… I can say that if we had this already I’d be a much happier person today.

I enjoy trying out new builds and gearing up for them, so much in fact that instead of sticking with any one set for too long I destroy what I had (I need the inventory space, I refuse to carry any more than 3 armor sets) and move on to a new idea and test out different stat allocations via gear and such.

So, although it would hurt the people I end up buying armor from constantly, it would definitely help support my habit (which is expensive and therefore time consuming and very frustrating when I have to start settling for masterwork instead of exotic due to lack of gold).

Now don’t get me wrong, I keep 2 tried and true armor sets of full exotic (and some ascended things), but that 3rd set is constantly being changed.

for me, i will just stick with one armor set for my characters until this kind of system is implemented.

synk.6907:

Rather than an armor that saves the stats, MMOs should really develop two “wearables” on the paper doll for characters — a visual piece of the slot for what your gear looks like and the stat piece of the slot for what it does. The latter could be swapped in and out, so folks would still need to fight the correct boss / run the correct dungeon / earn the correct currencies to get this gear the same as always. Visually players would be free to look however they wanted without the need to duplicate sets if they want the same look with varying stats, for example.

But this will infringe upon the transmutation stone sales, I guess.
At least WoW’s transmogriphication doesn’t delete the source item. allowing you to use it on multiple pieces of gear (e.g. want your healing set to look the same as your DPS set).

Perfect World Online is probably one of the closest examples of this. Not only does their character creation provide tons of sliders and customization, but their armor system is paired with “Fashion Mode” so you can choose what you look like and override the armor appearance if you want. Kind of like the costumes in GW1. Still not quite a disconnect between armor/character visuals and gear stats, but it’s close.

actually, this ESSENCE GEAR system will encourage more usage and ultimately sales of fine transmutation stones.

in the original guild wars 1, we can change our characters attributes freely while inside towns / outposts.

this will be the same with this guild wars 2 ESSENCE GEAR system.
able to freely change the skins, prefix, suffix once absorbed the said essence.

My opinion on what we need:

• Being able to use skins without needing to transmute every time
• Being able to switch you stats easily, once you’ve acquired an item that has the stats

How:

• [NEW] Skin Database
• How to get a skin in Skin Database?
  Simple: like Deimos suggested it: Anet has to add another option to transmutation stones. When using a Fine Transmutation stone you get a new option: Save Skin.
  Saving skin consumes the transmutation stone, but you get to keep your item.
• You can now withdraw Skins from your Skin Database (see it as the HoM system atm, you can get those items from the vendor, in any amount you want, for free).

• [NEW] Stat Database
• Saving stats to Stat Database? Same procedure, though a higher cost.
  Saving stats will require 1 Fine Transmutation stone and 2 Basic Transmutation stones.
• You get the option: “Save Stat to Database”.
• This procedure will consume BOTH the Stones & the Item.
• You can now withdraw the Stat Item for free from Database, in any amount you want.

!!!!!!! The items you withdraw from the databases will be Accountbound, so you can’t sell them!

What do you think?

Sirendor.1394:

My opinion on what we need:

• Being able to use skins without needing to transmute every time
• Being able to switch you stats easily, once you’ve acquired an item that has the stats

How:

• [NEW] Skin Database
• How to get a skin in Skin Database?
  Simple: like Deimos suggested it: Anet has to add another option to transmutation stones. When using a Fine Transmutation stone you get a new option: Save Skin.
  Saving skin consumes the transmutation stone, but you get to keep your item.
• You can now withdraw Skins from your Skin Database (see it as the HoM system atm, you can get those items from the vendor, in any amount you want, for free).

• [NEW] Stat Database
• Saving stats to Stat Database? Same procedure, though a higher cost.
  Saving stats will require 1 Fine Transmutation stone and 2 Basic Transmutation stones.
• You get the option: “Save Stat to Database”.
• This procedure will consume BOTH the Stones & the Item.
• You can now withdraw the Stat Item for free from Database, in any amount you want.

!!!!!!! The items you withdraw from the databases will be Accountbound, so you can’t sell them!

What do you think?

yes!

but i want to be able to switch them skins and stats on the fly via the menu while not in combat hahah. not collect the skins from HoM guy though.

but yeah, this is what i want:

• Being able to use skins without needing to transmute every time
• Being able to switch you stats easily, once you’ve acquired an item that has the stats

and skins too.
and i believe they are plenty of other people who wants this too!

kind of the like the Zerg from the StarCraft universe.
kill something, collect the essence, gain new abilities etc.

in Guild Wars 2, complete quest to acquire ESSENCE GEAR.
collect new essence, gear (armor, trinkets, weapons) gain ability to morph its skins and stats freely.

Yep, thats another mechanic but with the same purpose. I think they would both work.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

In addition, we’ll also improve the functionality of legendaries, allowing you to set their stats when out of combat to any stat combo available, so you don’t need to transmute stat changes for legendaries. Legendary gear will remain with the same tier of stats as ascended gear and will not be made more powerful than other gear, it will simply be slightly more convenient since it will no longer need transmutations to change stats.

thanks for listening!

i asked for this in the original guild wars 1 so many years ago and now finally in guild wars 2, i see some light.

my faith them is renewed!

i can forsee that there will be legendary armor, trinkets etc.

all can change stats.

and then there are people who say that ArenaNet does not listen to their customers…

gz!

Lukhas.1962:

and then there are people who say that ArenaNet does not listen to their customers…

gz!

thanks!

i am looking forward to various legendary gear which will allow us to change stats when out of combat.

hopefully can change skins too.

changed the title a bit.

since legendary gear can change stats, why not change the skins too?

Honestly, I was skeptical at first when reading through, but after I continued reading I thought about how awesome this sounds. Easy build changes, easy skin changes, and it doesn’t upset the balance of the game at all.

Since you have to be out of combat to change it, there’s no difference between this and equipping a different armor set from your inventory, except the convenience factor.

Since you still have to pay and/or earn everything, it doesn’t make things overpowered or upset balance of the economy.

Pretty cool idea…Anet should actually look into this. It’s essentially a giant wardrobe for your characters, earned by unlocking things.

The Eternal Grace.3157:

Pretty cool idea…Anet should actually look into this. It’s essentially a giant wardrobe for your characters, earned by unlocking things.

aye, all gear should be done this way.

thanks for the feedback!

I’m not sure if this discussion is still worth going on with, cause I heard legendaries have switch-able stats, but I still think a good idea.

well the transmutation stones “issue” would be solved by needing a transmutation stone every time you wanna swap skins, using it would open a new menu where you place your current item and in the other side you can see a list of all your available skins.

that would keep up the transmutaion stones income and would allow for a great QoL system for players