Guild Wars 2

A bit frustrated. Part of it was my fault, part of it is a bug (I think?), and part of it is me trying to figure out why this makes sense on GW2’s part.

I wanted to get Rabid stat-pants for my Necromancer, and liked the look of the HotW pants. So, mistakenly, I bought the HotW light pants (with rabid stats) on my Warrior, without realizing that it’s Soulbound on acquire, not on use. So my Necro can’t use the pants.

Was bummed out, but then noticed I had an extra 80 transmutation stone I bought with gems a while ago. The only Level 80 exotic rabid pants on the TP is at ~5g, so I went ahead and bought that. The stats also said “Soulbound on use”, so I assumed this would work. And it should.

Because my Necromancer can’t transmute the HotW pants (its Soulbound to the warrior), I have to use the Transmutation Stone on my warrior. I used the HotW Pants skin, and the stats from the TP pants (which said “Soulbound on Use” NOT “Soulbound on Acquire”). I double checked to make sure the stats were correct, and everything was how I needed it to be, and clicked Transmute.

It transmuted the pants, but the stats says the item is “Soulbound” (and not Soulbound on Use from the TP pants) and I still cannot use it on my Necromancer. Basically, I transmuted pants into the HotW skin, and received the HotW pants.

TL;DR:
All in all, I chunked 300 HotW tokens, ~5g, and a Transmutation Stone bought with gems which (I’m presuming) bugged, in return for a pair of light pants that is still Soulbound to my Warrior and unusable by my Necromancer (HotW pants -> Transmute -> Same Pants).

I do understand that I should’ve checked the dungeon armor that says “Soulbound”, but I would expect it to work with a Transmutation Stones bought with $. I also don’t have a ton of time to play GW2, so I normally only do p1 of HotW. Getting another pair of pants would take about 5 days or so.

Why are Dungeon armors soulbound on acquire, and not on use?
Why did the HotW pants, when transmuted with the stats of “Soulbound on Use”, go back to just Soulbound?

Are you looking for dungeon armor skin? Or stats? Because if you are looking only for skin this is the way.

1: Go on warrior, get your desired skin item (dungeon pants).
2: Buy white gear from npc or trading post.
3: Transfer SKIN to the white item, keep stats of white item.
4: Put them on bank and take out with necro
5: Now you are able to transfer skin to any pant item you want.

If you are looking for stats… Tough luck. Maybe support helps? :l

My advice, just run HOTW a couple times more for the pants again. Tokens are account bound so you can just buy it on necro then. The above solution works but you need 2 transmutation crystals, which is kinda a waste of gold imo.

Henqquli.5078:

Are you looking for dungeon armor skin? Or stats? Because if you are looking only for skin this is the way.

1: Go on warrior, get your desired skin item (dungeon pants).
2: Buy white gear from npc or trading post.
3: Transfer SKIN to the white item, keep stats of white item.
4: Put them on bank and take out with necro
5: Now you are able to transfer skin to any pant item you want.

If you are looking for stats… Tough luck. Maybe support helps? :l

I bought the dungeon pants for the skin and stats (primarily the skin), but because that didn’t work, I transmuted the SKIN alone to another item with the stats of another item, just as you say, so presumably it WOULD work. But it didn’t.

piano man.1672:

Henqquli.5078:

Are you looking for dungeon armor skin? Or stats? Because if you are looking only for skin this is the way.

1: Go on warrior, get your desired skin item (dungeon pants).
2: Buy white gear from npc or trading post.
3: Transfer SKIN to the white item, keep stats of white item.
4: Put them on bank and take out with necro
5: Now you are able to transfer skin to any pant item you want.

If you are looking for stats… Tough luck. Maybe support helps? :l

I bought the dungeon pants for the skin and stats (primarily the skin), but because that didn’t work, I transmuted the SKIN alone to another item with the stats of another item, just as you say, so presumably it WOULD work. But it didn’t.

Was it a white stats item?

cranos.5913:

My advice, just run HOTW a couple times more for the pants again. Tokens are account bound so you can just buy it on necro then. The above solution works but you need 2 transmutation crystals, which is kinda a waste of gold imo.

That’s what I plan on doing I guess, it just sets me back about 5 days (again, I don’t have a ton of time to play, and usually can only get in hotw p1).

My main problem is that the transmutation stone DIDN’T work. I paid money for it and received the same pants back, which was (and still is) unusable to my Necro.

cranos.5913:

Was it a white stats item?

Stats were exotic, from the trading post. But it should still work, shouldn’kitten

piano man.1672:

Henqquli.5078:

Are you looking for dungeon armor skin? Or stats? Because if you are looking only for skin this is the way.

1: Go on warrior, get your desired skin item (dungeon pants).
2: Buy white gear from npc or trading post.
3: Transfer SKIN to the white item, keep stats of white item.
4: Put them on bank and take out with necro
5: Now you are able to transfer skin to any pant item you want.

If you are looking for stats… Tough luck. Maybe support helps? :l

I bought the dungeon pants for the skin and stats (primarily the skin), but because that didn’t work, I transmuted the SKIN alone to another item with the stats of another item, just as you say, so presumably it WOULD work. But it didn’t.

It needs to be WHITE item stats. Because those are only thinks a part blue that are not soulbound at any case.
If its green, yellow or orange STATS it wont work.

Henqquli.5078:

piano man.1672:

Henqquli.5078:

Are you looking for dungeon armor skin? Or stats? Because if you are looking only for skin this is the way.

1: Go on warrior, get your desired skin item (dungeon pants).
2: Buy white gear from npc or trading post.
3: Transfer SKIN to the white item, keep stats of white item.
4: Put them on bank and take out with necro
5: Now you are able to transfer skin to any pant item you want.

If you are looking for stats… Tough luck. Maybe support helps? :l

I bought the dungeon pants for the skin and stats (primarily the skin), but because that didn’t work, I transmuted the SKIN alone to another item with the stats of another item, just as you say, so presumably it WOULD work. But it didn’t.

It needs to be WHITE item stats. Because those are only thinks a part blue that are not soulbound at any case.
If its green, yellow or orange STATS it wont work.

Alright well, thank you for that info. Seems to me to be very odd on GW2’s part; like, what would be the purpose for that?

piano man.1672:

cranos.5913:

My advice, just run HOTW a couple times more for the pants again. Tokens are account bound so you can just buy it on necro then. The above solution works but you need 2 transmutation crystals, which is kinda a waste of gold imo.

That’s what I plan on doing I guess, it just sets me back about 5 days (again, I don’t have a ton of time to play, and usually can only get in hotw p1).

My main problem is that the transmutation stone DIDN’T work. I paid money for it and received the same pants back, which was (and still is) unusable to my Necro.

cranos.5913:

Was it a white stats item?

Stats were exotic, from the trading post. But it should still work, shouldn’kitten

As henqquli said, you need to transmute them to white item stats which makes them account bound and then transmute it again to the exotic stats you want. Then you have an account bound item with the skin and the stats. The way you did it, it’s just a new skin on an already soulbound item.

piano man.1672:

Henqquli.5078:

piano man.1672:

Henqquli.5078:

Are you looking for dungeon armor skin? Or stats? Because if you are looking only for skin this is the way.

1: Go on warrior, get your desired skin item (dungeon pants).
2: Buy white gear from npc or trading post.
3: Transfer SKIN to the white item, keep stats of white item.
4: Put them on bank and take out with necro
5: Now you are able to transfer skin to any pant item you want.

If you are looking for stats… Tough luck. Maybe support helps? :l

I bought the dungeon pants for the skin and stats (primarily the skin), but because that didn’t work, I transmuted the SKIN alone to another item with the stats of another item, just as you say, so presumably it WOULD work. But it didn’t.

It needs to be WHITE item stats. Because those are only thinks a part blue that are not soulbound at any case.
If its green, yellow or orange STATS it wont work.

Alright well, thank you for that info. Seems to me to be very odd on GW2’s part; like, what would be the purpose for that?

Very good question. Sounds weird but it has been working for me in accidents like these

If my memory serves me correctly it is a bug, which the devs decided not to fix.

There are all sorts of exploits which could be had if a rare or exotic could be taken from soulbound acquire – use via a transmutation stone. The stone worked as intended – they are designed only to to transmute stats (power, vit etc) and skins, nothing else. The fact that whites work differently is just an oddity not an intention.