Question About Armor Skins
The Armor skin comes with 6 pieces. one for each piece of armor. head,legs,torso,etc.
After you use it, it’s stuck to that armor you applied to. HOWEVER, you can use Transmute stones both fine and regular to move the skin to a different armor piece. I hope this info is right cause I’m going by what people had said in past about it.
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Transmute stones can indeed be used to move your armour/weapon skins around, At level 80 you would need fine stones that cost 200gems for 5
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What Torqueblue and Bean said is correct. Each armor skin comes with 6 pieces that can be transmuted to a regular piece of armor for aesthetics. If you want to keep the look of the armor and find armor with better stats you can then use a transmutation stone to keep the look of the armor skin that you purchased.
so it’s different to the HoM where you can get those pieces again and again if you delete it accidentally?
If it happens that you “lose” the skin for e.g. the shoulderpieces, you will have to buy the whole set again from the store?
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so it’s different to the HoM where you can get those pieces again and again if you delete it accidentally?
If it happens that you “lose” the skin for e.g. the shoulderpieces, you will have to buy the whole set again from the store?
Correct. Pretty crap to say your a paying customer yet have to pay further to keep using your purchase as you upgrade your armour.
I purchased the Primeval armour at launch. Its been sat in my bank since that day. I’ll use it one day when I find armour worth using it on.
Pretty crap to say your a paying customer yet have to pay further to keep using your purchase as you upgrade your armour.
I purchased the Primeval armour at launch. Its been sat in my bank since that day. I’ll use it one day when I find armour worth using it on.
That’s why I would love to see an “armor wardrobe” introduced, similar to the Festival Hat Maker from GW1, where you can unlock appearances by showing the NPC an armor set you’re currently wearing (and it must be the complete set, not merely one piece of the set). After being unlocked, you can freely apply the unlocked skin to any armor set you’re currently wearing, although the NPC will charge you a Transmutation Stone(s) each time you apply a new skin.
The armor wardrobe would be account-wide, but certain restrictions may still apply (you cannot wear Cultural or Order armors that you don’t belong to, for example).
Yea I bought the heavy armor during the first month but didn’t realize that I had to use stones to keep it so now its gone.
Pretty crap to say your a paying customer yet have to pay further to keep using your purchase as you upgrade your armour.
I purchased the Primeval armour at launch. Its been sat in my bank since that day. I’ll use it one day when I find armour worth using it on.
That’s why I would love to see an “armor wardrobe” introduced, similar to the Festival Hat Maker from GW1, where you can unlock appearances by showing the NPC an armor set you’re currently wearing (and it must be the complete set, not merely one piece of the set). After being unlocked, you can freely apply the unlocked skin to any armor set you’re currently wearing, although the NPC will charge you a Transmutation Stone(s) each time you apply a new skin.
These ideas are good, however I would like to see what was implemented with Lord of the Rings Online, with their appearance tab.
For those who did not play LotRO, you had one tab for your armour, and a second tab for your appearance. Anything in the appearance tab, for a given location, will overlay what you see in game. So if you had a helmet in your appearance tab, you would see that helmet, rather than the one you have equipped in your armour tab, for its stats.
All ArenaNet would need to is to have; Armour Tab, Appearance Tab, Town Clothes Tab.
Armour and Town Clothes would work as they do now. The Appearance Tab will allow you to place armour in various locations, that would show in game, over what you had equipped in the corresponding Armour tab. If you do not want your armour to be changed, you simply clear whatever was slotted in the respective slot, in the Appearance Tab.
With this LotRO system, you would simply equip your gem purchased vanity armour in your Appearance slot, and you will never have to worry about updating your armour again with Transmutation Stones… then again, this would lessen the need for Transmutation Stones, so I would expect you would need to pay gems to open up your Appearance slot, for each character, otherwise it would never get implemented.
(edited by Lurch.4793)
What Torqueblue and Bean said is correct. Each armor skin comes with 6 pieces that can be transmuted to a regular piece of armor for aesthetics. If you want to keep the look of the armor and find armor with better stats you can then use a transmutation stone to keep the look of the armor skin that you purchased.
The problem with this system is that it costs you two sets of armor, plus the transmutation stones, to get the armor that you do want. For those of us who like to have multiple outfits for our characters, this is painfully expensive and time consuming.