Guild Wars 2

Would it be possible to add a 4rth category to weapons during transmutation? That of their names.

For example, there’s an exotic trident called “limitless furnace” which as we can all agree is a pimp name. However the skin is rather lacking.
Luckily there’s a skin dubbed “flame trident” that is perfect for it.

However, you cant transmute the name without taking the skin with it.

It would be nice to be able to transmute the name of one item onto the skin of another.

Note: If you transmute the name of one item onto the skin of another, it should soulbind the item to you such that you cannot transmute a name onto a different skin, then sell it on the tp and cause crazy confusion.

I disagree, the name kind of stands for the Skin.

What you suggest would allow people to wear “destroyer” items with the look of a “corrupted” one.

additional to that, it will confuse people that want the same skin because they find it cool: you get asked what weapon that is, you link it, they go to the tp and buy the “limitless furnance” and end up having a different skin, does more bad than good imo

Cruzyo.7304:

I disagree, the name kind of stands for the Skin.

What you suggest would allow people to wear “destroyer” items with the look of a “corrupted” one.

additional to that, it will confuse people that want the same skin because they find it cool: you get asked what weapon that is, you link it, they go to the tp and buy the “limitless furnance” and end up having a different skin, does more bad than good imo

While it would allow people to wear “Destroyer corrupted” items. I dont really see why that’s an actual concern. And if it’s really THAT big of a concern, just make only named exotics able to be transmuted.

As for the second point, yeah, but you’d need to be being intentionally malicious. Anet could also add a note onto items transmuted that way that state “This items name has been transmuted” so that when you link it people know that it’s not the original name/skin combination.

I think it would add only confusion – Something has skin of one item, stats of a second and name of the third…