Guild Wars 2

Transmutation stones are wonderful, but sadly they have one fatal flaw: They can’t skin armors of different weight classes! It seems silly that no matter what class you choose, you’re limited to 1/3 of the fashions that ArenaNet painstakingly designed and created. There have been so many times when I wished I could wear light armor on my Guardian, or heavy armor on my Ranger.

To rectify this, I suggest a new type of transmutation stone, Ultimate. These would be able to skin any armor to any other, just like normal transmutation stones, but would no longer be limited by the armor’s weight class. These could be sold on the gem store, and I guarantee would sell like hot cakes. Fine transmutation stones can be bought for 200 gems for a bundle of 5, I would personally be happy to pay 500 or even 600 gems for a bundle of 5 ultimate transmutation stones.

What are your thoughts?

It is intended that you cannot overlap different armor-types with transmutation.

This is so that gear between professions has visual consistency so that when ANet finally started going into eSports, the game is spectator-friendly.

That’s why they made it so you can’t preview with different item-types together.

um but the esport would be in sPvP where you cant use transmutation stones anyway…..so why not use them to switch armors of any kind…..unless you count WvW as PvP……that in itself is a joke…it wouldnt make it any more unbalanced broken then it is through consumables, skale venom, and whatevs.

My guess is, they want the entire game consistent so that the 3 game modes (wvw, pve, and spvp) are as fluid as possible for players.