Heroic chest on sylvari with profane armor

Heroic chest on sylvari with profane armor

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Posted by: Ishii.4103

Ishii.4103

Q:

Super new to the game < 10 hours, got the heroic chest, opened porfane armor, and cant equip, what do i do?
What are my options?

Thank you

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Posted by: smekras.8203

smekras.8203

is the character you tried this with a light armour user? (aka Scholar, aka Mesmer, Necromancer or Elementalist)

Server: Kaineng | Guild: Blackflame Legion [BFL]
Perhaps the only RP-oriented guild on the server
Main Character: Farathnor (sylvari ranger) 1 of 22

Heroic chest on sylvari with profane armor

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Posted by: shinreigari.7318

shinreigari.7318

I only tell it this detailed because you said you’re super new to the game so i’m not sure you know how armor skins work. Profane armor is a light armor skin, which means you need to have a light armor class character – obviously – then you remove its clothes. You click the profane armor pieces one by one, and at every piece, it will ask if you want to use it normally or in pvp. Choose normally if you want it to show in the open world (pve) and wvw. The pvp option only shows it in structured pvp. So after you chose the option, it will put the skin on the piece of armor.
If you get new armor, still don’t throw the old armor/skin away if you want to keep it, because the looks can be transmuted with transmutation crystals (the yellow ones) up to lvl 80. Lvl 80 gear can only be transmuted with the blue crystal which is much harder to get (without spending gems)
If you want to use the already used skin on a different character, you may notice that you can’t because it becomes soulbound on the char that you first used it on. However, this can be “bypassed” by buying non-80, white named armor and transmuting the whole skin set on it. Then it becomes account bound and you can put it in your bank, so you can get it out with your other character (and transmute it onto some better armor, yellow-named eg., that’ll be a lot of transmutation crystals, but for exploring a map, you always get some, so if you’re lucky, you never run out of them. Try exploring cities – they are faster than full maps, but always give 3 crystals i think)

Maybe a bit more information than you needed, but i thought they might come handy since you’re “super new” Hope it helps!

(edited by shinreigari.7318)

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Posted by: Ishii.4103

Ishii.4103

I played GW1 x years ago for 900 hours LOL
But this is a bit different.

I chose Sylvari monk/guardian (Im surprized it does not say it can only be equipped on the following…….. before you open it on the info….) developers still have alot of work to do in my opinion, this plus other things iv noticed.

So the skin that i got with the chest i can apply to my current armor? > This also leads to do i even want to do that? Im only lvl 20, by the time i reach lvl 80 I will probably swap armor x amount of times right? So it would sorta be a waste?

Can i move my armor that I cant equip into my storage (profane) , and then when i create another class that can wear it, i can equip there?

Still alot to learn, learning a new mmo takes way too much time

Thanks for the help

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Posted by: shinreigari.7318

shinreigari.7318

I kinda answered all your questions already. Tldr? :P

Again but shorter: you can transmute armor skins all the way to lvl 80 armor.
You can transmute skins to white named armor so it becomes account bound and you can put it in your bank, thus making it accessible to any other character you have.

Btw the ingame description of the skin does include that it’s only light armor. “A full set of light armor skins in classic style. This set can only be equipped by characters that wear light armor and has no stats of its own. The art skin can be applied once per piece to replace the appearence of another light armor piece.”
It’s all about reading things really.