Guild Wars 2

I remember this being said back when the game first started.

Transmutation scrolls should be a random drop or chest item. These scrolls would…
- Contain a skin for a certain piece of armor or weapon
- Be account bound so that you could get different armor sets for different characters.
- Only work on lvl 80 gear
- Be lvl 80 to use
- Armor becomes soulbound on use.

I think adding this sort of item would allow the number of armor skins to grow exponentially, ArenaNet would not have to add new content for reason to get the armor but instead would add it to the loot table. There could be super rare skins that only drop in certain zones which would cause characters that wanted these skins to go back into the zones.

This is not good idea, because existance of these skins in place of simply new weapons with awesome skins, would reduce the usage of transmutation stones – tool that exist especially for this purpose.

Aenia Shadowforce.9148:

This is not good idea, because existance of these skins in place of simply new weapons with awesome skins, would reduce the usage of transmutation stones – tool that exist especially for this purpose.

How would it reduce the use of transmutation stones? If you use the scroll it disappears, if you want to move that skin to another armor you still need to use transmutation stones. Is your only reason you think this is a bad idea is because of transmutation stones? Ignoring all the benefits it would allow for adding new skins to the game without having to add more content?