Guild Wars 2

Why are they only one time use? If im going to spend 500 gems on a weapon then I should be able to use that skin whenever the hell I want.

Opinions?

You can always transmute it after. Although if you’re using it on 80 weapons… it’s just incentive to buy fine stones. It’s a money thing, however, keep in mind a fine stone is much less costly than another copy of the skin

Your complaint is well justified, but I think it’s a bit inflated. Not trying to sound patronizing. I thought the same until I realised I really like transmuting things

I agree. You can transfer them to other weapons via transmutation stones, but once you stick them on a weapon, they become soulbound to that character.

I really think that gem store skins should unlock the skin for that account, with unlimited skins of that type available from a special vendor, in a manner similar to the Hall of Monuments vendor. I know I would buy a lot more skins if they were available this way.

It is possible to transmute any soulbound skin onto a new item and make it account bound, enabling you to transfer the weapon skin to another character. You lose the stats of course, but you keep the skin.

This works for all skins I’ve tried it on so far, including biography headpieces, so I think it should work just fine for the holiday skins, too, if you ever change your mind about what character you want it on.

Grab a new, non-soulbound item of BLUE or WHITE rarity (this is important). Take the soulbound skin you want and transmute its appearance onto the “clean” blue or white item. In the transmutation window, be sure to choose the appearance of the soulbound item and the stats of the non-soulbound item of blue/white rarity. Voila, you have an account-bound item with the skin you want. It should say “account bound” on the new item. Even if it doesn’t, put it in your bank and transfer it to the new character. The alt will be able to remove it. Then you can use the alt to transfer the skin onto the item with the stats you actually want.

Hope this helps.

Lady Vireo.5189:

It is possible to transmute any soulbound skin onto a new item and make it account bound, enabling you to transfer the weapon skin to another character. You lose the stats of course, but you keep the skin.

This works for all skins I’ve tried it on so far, including biography headpieces, so I think it should work just fine for the holiday skins, too, if you ever change your mind about what character you want it on.

Grab a new, non-soulbound item of BLUE or WHITE rarity (this is important). Take the soulbound skin you want and transmute its appearance onto the “clean” blue or white item. In the transmutation window, be sure to choose the appearance of the soulbound item and the stats of the non-soulbound item of blue/white rarity. Voila, you have an account-bound item with the skin you want. It should say “account bound” on the new item. Even if it doesn’t, put it in your bank and transfer it to the new character. The alt will be able to remove it. Then you can use the alt to transfer the skin onto the item with the stats you actually want.

Hope this helps.

Tl;dr
You can transmute soulbound item in bank slot