Guild Wars 2

Special NPC (or multiple for weapons and armor) that lets you trade for skins you have unlocked per account

By finding or purchasing a skin you then “unlock” it for use by accessing the vendor and purchasing the skin from them for a small fee, or token.

This gives players a new form of progression as well, for collectors to find and collect all the available skins in the game to unlock.

This also givese the normal player a chance to not be completelt F’d over by some of Anets choices when it comes to skin aquisition (you would have to purchase a whole new weapon to “store” the current skin if it was rare, and would get very costly and space consuming)

Gem store could contain “skin packs” such as Super Skin pack, Fused Skin Pack, etc. etc. that people could purchase for roughly $5-10 in gems that would be added to their unlocks.

These vendors would react currently to how any other vendor and HoM vendors currently work, you can get the skin as many times as you want for the fee they require.

These skin items would be account bound so you could not saturate the TP with them.

Current Example: I have a Fused Longbow and a Super Longbow Skin. If I transmute the Super skin onto the Fused, the fused then becomes lost forever. If I want to keep the fused, I then have to purchase a new weapon and sigil to apply it to in order to have the same stats, but keep both skins available. As well as take up a space in my inventory or bank when I want to change the skin (swap)

Future Example: I have a Fused longbow and a Super skin unlocked on my account. I simply purchase the super skin with the fee or token and apply it to the weapon. I then later want to use the fused weapon skin, and repeat the same process using the fee or token to return the skin to the weapon.

No RNG hastle involved AFTER getting the skins is a good thing ANET! If you want to apply RNG to lottery style aquisition, don’t make it a 1 time deal on the item too!

IMO armors and weapons you can get in-game doesn’t have to be an unlocked thing since you can still get them in-game, i do think that any skin bought from the gem store should be an unlock.
like the profane armor, it costs 750 gems (when i bought it, wiki is saying 500 gems…) but we can only use it ones.
it should be unlocked, for €8,99 i can buy a costume for GW1 and have it unlocked for the entire account while in GW2 buying it means you pretty much have a really expensive consumable 1X use skin.

That is exactly what I have a gripe with, since they cost money, and are impossible to get otherwise, it artificially “values” the item, making the player feel like they have LESS choice in their appearance.

If I decide for any reason to transmute the fused skin I have, it will be insanely difficult to get back, if not impossible…which imo is a really REALLY stupid idea for Anet.

But yes, normal weapon and armor skins may not need to be added, but if they design the UI to be similar to the PvP lockers, then having everything as an unlockable will be no concern.

But oh ho, whats this?! The new content being added soon, and it has….wait for it….more RNG based 1x use weapon skins! what a grand idea! cough