Guild Wars 2

I like the looks of the T3 cultural weapons but I loathe the stats. What I’m wondering is if its possible to transmute the Warden (t3) sword looks onto my Berserker’s Pearl Sabre (which I hate the looks of).

From what I read I can just take a T1 cultural sword and do this. Is this true?

No, it’s not true.
I transmuted my T3 staff skin on another exotic staff. As long as you transmute the same type of weapon (or armor) it’ll work

…so I can’t take the t1 cultural sylvari sword (which looks the same as the t3 cultural sword) and transmute its appearance on my exotic sword?

I’m sorry, english isn’t my mother tongue, maybe I’m using wrong words.
You CAN transmute everything, as long it’s the same type (sword with sword, dagger with dagger and so on). If one of the weapon is exotic and the other not, doesn’t matter.

But I wonder, the T1 sword looks the same as the T3 sword?

From what I’ve read the t1 cultural weapons look the same as the t3 cultural weapons.

You can preview them at the cultural weapon seller. You’ll see, that they are not the same… The T1 weapons are not leafy at all. If you want the warden sword, you have to buy T3.

Ugh that means I have to farm another 250000 karma to get the equipment and looks I desire. Guess I’ll be doing plinx runs and daily crap for a while.

I’m kinda confused here. So I’ll just lay down the facts.

You can use Basic Transmutation stones to merge 2 level 79 or lower items of the same type together. (two Swords, two Great Swords, two cloth boots, ect)
During the process you get to pick 3 things.
1. Which look you want the item to have.
2. Which stats you want the item to have.
3. Which upgrade you want the item to have. (if either weapon has an upgrade in it)

Fine Transmutation stones work the same way only they go all the way up to level 80 items and lower.

You can, and most do, craft your exotic pearl weapon then use a Fine Transmutation stone to change the look to a dungeon weapon, cultural weapon or what ever you like.
I think pearl looks so bad to encourage people to see out one they like and change the look.
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Previewing sylvari styled weapons never (at least for me and others Iv spoken with) show all of the weapon, Some reason “stone” (i think it is) part of the sword that makes up the blade never shows. So you can usually only see the part of the weapon made of vines.

As far as I know there are 3 sylvari styled weapon sets; Verdant, Nightmare, and Warden. And while I havent examined them up close , all three do look different.

Edit: I would like to point out that You can give a low level item, like a level 5 sword, the look of a level 80 weapon by using the Fine Transmutation stone.

Always so much confusion over cultural weapons

Tier 1 = Glyphic, not unique, looks like asuran weapons……
Tier 2 = Verdant, not unique, looks like bright green and blue leafy weapons, can be found as random drops in the world, or bought for like 1s on the trading post.
Tier 3 = Warden, these ARE unique, can only be bought from the Tier3 cultural weapon merchant in The Grove. Thorny/Blue Glass appearance. This is what you want to buy.

You need a fine transmute stone from the Black Lion Trading Company to change the appearance on your Berserker’s Pearl Sabre (which does indeed look ugly!!)

Thanks for the help guys, I’ve been making great progress on my karma farming (12k in 1 hour without using the 50% karma booster-my mistake there).

Once I collect all the karma I need and get my Sylvari Thief looking exactly how I want I’ll post some screen shots.