Guild Wars 2

I’m sure this has been brought up before, but up until recently it had never been an issue because I never bothered sharing my ascended gear between different characters.

If something is transmuted to look like cultural armor, it won’t show up on a race that that cultural armor doesn’t belong to and you have to transmute it before sending it to another character.

Is there anyway this can be changed somehow in the future? Possibly by removing the transmuted look when a different race wears it? Or have it default back to it’s original appearance so it can be equipped without having to log back onto the previous character, waste a stone, and then bank it?

It would be nice to get another transmutation overhaul in the future in general, or possibly just do away with the cost of transmutation stones. I mean, I get plenty from wvw and pvp, and I don’t know how many people actually buy them.

But my main point is just that it’s frustrating having to transmute something to a universal or common appearance before another character can use it. It wastes an extra stone and makes the hassle of gear sharing even more tedious.

I agree on the hassle, but I can at least offer a workaround.
If you have the Heritage armor skins from the Hall of Monuments (from having linked GW1 to GW2), they’re free to apply. Using it asan intermediary skin removes the extra cost.

It would be nice if you could be given the option “This armor has a skin that cannot be worn by this character. Do you want to transmute it to equip?” and choosing Yes brings up the transmute interface.

Tanner Blackfeather.6509:

I agree on the hassle, but I can at least offer a workaround.
If you have the Heritage armor skins from the Hall of Monuments (from having linked GW1 to GW2), they’re free to apply. Using it asan intermediary skin removes the extra cost.

The same would qualify for Radiant and Hellfire armors but people rarely have the entire set. I don’t either.

Can the non-race character still equip the gear, or does it just not show up visually?

This may not be easy to do, but I would think the ideal solution would be instead to tie the transmutation to the Cultural armor level/tier. That way if you transmute your ascended armor to look like Human Light Cultural 1, on a Sylvari it would be Sylvari Light Cultural 1 or a Norn would be Norn Light Cultural 1 and so on.

Glacial.9516:

This may not be easy to do, but I would think the ideal solution would be instead to tie the transmutation to the Cultural armor level/tier. That way if you transmute your ascended armor to look like Human Light Cultural 1, on a Sylvari it would be Sylvari Light Cultural 1 or a Norn would be Norn Light Cultural 1 and so on.

That’s actually a pretty suave solution. Bravo~
I hope the devs see this and execute it.

Glacial.9516:

This may not be easy to do, but I would think the ideal solution would be instead to tie the transmutation to the Cultural armor level/tier. That way if you transmute your ascended armor to look like Human Light Cultural 1, on a Sylvari it would be Sylvari Light Cultural 1 or a Norn would be Norn Light Cultural 1 and so on.

There are achievements for owning each piece of cultural armor for each race, I guess they wouldn’t do that cause it would completely break the achievement

Rauderi.8706:

Can the non-race character still equip the gear, or does it just not show up visually?

The gear won’t show up in the equipment tab.

cptaylor.2670:

Rauderi.8706:

Can the non-race character still equip the gear, or does it just not show up visually?

The gear won’t show up in the equipment tab.

Ah, okay.
Yegh, that sucks.

Probably because it says “Requires: [Race]” in the text to equip, so it won’t show it as an equipable item. Irritatingly minor detail, but I hope they fix it.