Guild Wars 2

I think it would be nice if we could transmute accessories, rings, and amulets. I would much rather equip an Ancient Vanguard Captain’s Crest than a “Sapphire Orichalcum Earring of the Cleric,” for example. I understand that there’s no visual appearance to change, but for flavor purposes (I tried really hard to save Ascalon in GW1), I’d like to be able to transmute them anyway.

If you can’t transmute the appearance, which is the purpose of transmuting, then am I failing to see what you’re asking for?

Are you asking for the ability to rename the items?

He wants the icons to look cooler on his character sheet, whether or not it has a visual appearance others can see.

I second it, if only because that would give some few people a reason to hunt accessories for icon look.

Items currentlyhave 3 ‘parts’ you can choose when transmuting:
- Skin.
- Base
- Upgrade.

Other than appearance, there’s the usefulness of picking one item base stats and the other’s upgrades.

Also, you never know, maybe one day some trinkets will have visuals when you have graphics settings high enough and you are close enough to see them. Who wouldn’t want to see something like a teddy bear hanging from someone’s waist?

Tsubaki.2508:

He wants the icons to look cooler on his character sheet, whether or not it has a visual appearance others can see.

I second it, if only because that would give some few people a reason to hunt accessories for icon look.

Exactly. I don’t want (Prefix) Orichalcum (Item type) of (Suffix) in every slot. I want something more interesting! Like a Friendship Shell (“It’s shaped like a hug!”) or— for the truly nostalgic among us— a Broken Flute.

I hope they implement it. because it would be really cool to have these things as memories. i.e you buy a pirate flag because you had a epic event or u had a good time while killing pirates and then you met a karma vendor selling pirate flags. and would so be usefull as a memory. atm you have to save all these memories in the bank… witch is kinda dull tbh. and for those who think it’s usless. dont use it. simple. also MithranArkanere have a point with the uppgrades.

Yeah, and I’d like to keep my Hero’s Band somewhere besides my backpack. I mean, it has a cool name AND a cool phrase on it. Win!

Maybe if there was a cheaper transmutation stone.

Or if they made Basic stones work on trinkets. Those are in excess for players who have gotten 100% map completion after all.

This has my support. I’m big on character background and development and would love to use my accessories as a personal way of defining my character.

Plus, it’s a win-win as far as transmutation stones go.

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Ive suggeested this also long time ago once in the german part of the forums …

this would be especially useful for all the RP players and such people, which want to have rings, earings and the link with a certain name and icon and are into the details …

Most high end stuff has crappy boring total partwise kitten names, just only worser are the names of crafted items, which again are most oftenly these items i just make only for the superior stats and stats in a combination you want…

This is one thing really I’ve never understood, why it isn’t possible to do this from the begin on…
Who cares for visuals of accessoires.. the visuals of accessoires are basicalyl their names and their item icons.. THAT are their visuals and these are as same as important, as like the visual stuff of the “normal” equipment that you can see on your character.

I’ve actually been keeping my trinket souvenirs of Ascalon/GW1 (like my Ebon Vanguard Amulet) in an invisible bag, just in case they implement this functionality.
I like my Quaggan Friendship Bracelet, too; a quaggan gave it to me as a token of our friendship. And what about my Toy Stuffed Bear? I never go anywhere without that guy!

YES!

This would be a really great feature. There are so many karma trinkets, especially in the lower-level zones which I would like to use because of the icon and/or the description. I can’t stand the fact that they can’t be transmuted.

The more stuff that can be transmuted, the more people will buy transmutation stones which in turn could mean more profit for Arenanet

So, while I will say the asthetic indulgence being asked for here is completely silly, the actual mechanic of transmutation is something that should be applied to these if for no better reason then to allow us to move upgrades from one thing to another. If I make a ring, then buy a better ring for karma I want to be able to transfer the jewel from one ring to the other, since the karma ring won’t have an upgrade.

That is has the added benefit of indulging a whimsical fansy is that much frosting.

I’m all in for this too! I have items with cool names but lackluster stats that I would love to wear in place of the statistically better items I already have. I don’t mind spending fine transmutation stones to do it too.

Considering that everything else on the [H]ero panel is transmutable, it seems like this was left out intentionally. I wonder if that was because they thought nobody would want it, or because there was some technical limitation for things that have no appearance?

IMO, a transmutable trinket should cost around 40,000 karma each instead of having to use a T-Crystal.

This way, players that has plenty of karma to spend could go back into the world and design their trinkets.