Guild Wars 2

I know I’m gonna get grief for this but I really don’t care. I just realized that the “Gas Mask” DOES NOT go into our UNLOCKED REWARDS. Therefore, I cannot pull it out of my “Reward Skins” for other characters on my account without a TRANSMUTE STONE. That my friends is B.S. especially after all the effort WE the players went through to unlock this thing. RETHINK THAT and add it to our REWARDS UNLOCKED!!! GEEEEZ!!! I don’t believe you thought that was going to set well. It’s bad enough that if we buys skins in the from the BLT (which is indirectly real life money) we have to use the “Transmute Stones” on those. Thanks a whole heap…

I agree that there definately needs to be some sort of armory or closet or something where we can re-use skins we have acquired whether it be stat-less skins or statted gear. Even if it would cost karma or something to withdraw..

I am curious. Was there a particular reason you thought this reward would be different than others earned from metas? As for ‘difficulty’, I thought this meta’s achievements were earned more quickly than many of the others.

It would be nice if we were to get Costume Makers and Festival Hat makers, again. Very nice. =)

Shall I add to your woe, OP? Once you use it, you can only transfer it to alts of the same armor weight. At least the Dragon Bash helm gave us one of each weight! And we could get enough Masks of the Night for all three weights as well.

I’m afraid I can’t use the skin until they find a way to let any of my alts use it if I’m willing to use the transmutes.

+1 for the armor closet or other way to easily trade/reuse skins between alts once unlocked.

I want to buy some skins from the gemstore (the shiny pauldrons) but it greatly bothers me that I have to decide right now how many of those items I want to buy. What if I get more alts later on and I want pauldrons for them too? Once I buy such a skin, I should be able to claim as many as I want. Like the HOM rewards. Same with those limited-edition event skins, I don’t dare to use them as I don’t know which characters I will have down the road.

You’re all basically saying the same thing I said earlier. I mean they added a “Rewards Unlock” for achievements, these things should go in there. They should do the same thing for purchases.

I agree and think that Anet is losing out. They could easily increase the price on gemstore skins but make them permanent unlockables like the ap skins.

Centaur.3607:

You’re all basically saying the same thing I said earlier. I mean they added a “Rewards Unlock” for achievements, these things should go in there. They should do the same thing for purchases.

They added a Rewards Unlock for Achievement BOXES – as in the things you get to open every 500 achievement points. Nothing except the Zenith Weapons and the two new Armour (half) sets goes in there.

I do agree that in the future rewards we earn through a meta or an event should be unlockable because it would be nice to not have to store them until such a time that I want to use it or put it on an alt – but the information on how it works currently is there… The item itself is account bound, so you can use it on an alt instead of the character who earned it if you wanted.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Centaur.3607:

You’re all basically saying the same thing I said earlier. I mean they added a “Rewards Unlock” for achievements, these things should go in there. They should do the same thing for purchases.

They added a Rewards Unlock for Achievement BOXES – as in the things you get to open every 500 achievement points. Nothing except the Zenith Weapons and the two new Armour (half) sets goes in there.

I do agree that in the future rewards we earn through a meta or an event should be unlockable because it would be nice to not have to store them until such a time that I want to use it or put it on an alt – but the information on how it works currently is there… The item itself is account bound, so you can use it on an alt instead of the character who earned it if you wanted.

FlamingFoxx I do realize that they added the Rewards Unlock for Achievement BOXES and I realize that the meta- and event rewards are account bound. But as you pointed out these skins should be able to be used at anytime by any Alts on the account. And this should be able to be done without having to use “Transmute Stones.”

Any other input on this?? I’d really like to get Anet’s input on this.

What Input from Anet would you like? The answer will be that this is not going to happen, because we need to sell transmutation stones, crystals and splitters via gem store. Get a 2nd account if you like to get a 2nd pair of event skins for your alts.

We’ve been having this discussion all year long and I think we even had this discussion last year, things like that won’t change but thanks for the effort of trying This topic will be moved to suggestion and that’s the end of it. lol

slurpey.6014:

What Input from Anet would you like? The answer will be that this is not going to happen, because we need to sell transmutation stones, crystals and splitters via gem store. Get a 2nd account if you like to get a 2nd pair of event skins for your alts.

We’ve been having this discussion all year long and I think we even had this discussion last year, things like that won’t change but thanks for the effort of trying This topic will be moved to suggestion and that’s the end of it. lol

But a very valid point is – why should someone have to buy a second account when they have purchased the equivalent worth of character slots.
The fact that achievements are account wide rather than character based becomes a massive hindrance in this respect. Players should at the very least be able to earn these rewards on their alts as well as on their mains.
Achievement rewards also function a little differently. As it stands they aren’t a massive seller of transmutation stones because all of them are skins rather than items. So as it stands it’s basically – you can’t have these on your alt for absolutely no reason at all, sure we wouldn’t lose money by making it unlockable but HA -

I’d like their input as to why things like rewards (WHICH WE EARNED) and that are already account bound, what is their rational is for NOT allowing the same Reward be available to all characters on the account. I do use the Transmute Stones for things that drop (or purchase in the BLT-AH) that I like the looks of but not their stats (which from what I understand were the original reason for these). I’m just curious as to what their rational is, the fact it is makes for a VERY CLUNKY SYSTEM!!! I honestly DO NOT HAVE the time for this kind of GOOFBALL NONESENSE.

for starters, you could use slightly less offensive language. : )) they might turn an ear. not whining. not complaining. it’s just a personal suggestion. good ideas you have here! so you don’t want your upsetness to drown them out.

akamon.2769:

for starters, you could use slightly less offensive language. : )) they might turn an ear. not whining. not complaining. it’s just a personal suggestion. good ideas you have here! so you don’t want your upsetness to drown them out.

HAHAHA!!! There is nothing offensive in what I have said. No foul language, no name calling…nothing…descriptive yes, but not offensive. If anyone should be offended, it is I and the rest of the players that play the game according to their rules and design, and pay real money in THEIR Black Lions Trading Post. I mean for the most part I enjoy the game, but this is one of those things that should be changed.

Centaur.3607:

akamon.2769:

for starters, you could use slightly less offensive language. : )) they might turn an ear. not whining. not complaining. it’s just a personal suggestion. good ideas you have here! so you don’t want your upsetness to drown them out.

HAHAHA!!! There is nothing offensive in what I have said. No foul language, no name calling…nothing…descriptive yes, but not offensive. If anyone should be offended, it is I and the rest of the players that play the game according to their rules and design, and pay real money in THEIR Black Lions Trading Post. I mean for the most part I enjoy the game, but this is one of those things that should be changed.

You know exactly what you’re getting when you purchase an item from the gem store. Just because you want someone else or something more doesn’t mean you have a right to be offended. You get exactly what you paid for so if you want to complain then perhaps reconsider spending your money – which you did not have to do.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Centaur.3607:

akamon.2769:

for starters, you could use slightly less offensive language. : )) they might turn an ear. not whining. not complaining. it’s just a personal suggestion. good ideas you have here! so you don’t want your upsetness to drown them out.

HAHAHA!!! There is nothing offensive in what I have said. No foul language, no name calling…nothing…descriptive yes, but not offensive. If anyone should be offended, it is I and the rest of the players that play the game according to their rules and design, and pay real money in THEIR Black Lions Trading Post. I mean for the most part I enjoy the game, but this is one of those things that should be changed.

You know exactly what you’re getting when you purchase an item from the gem store. Just because you want someone else or something more doesn’t mean you have a right to be offended. You get exactly what you paid for so if you want to complain then perhaps reconsider spending your money – which you did not have to do.

You are exactly right, and that’s exactly why I DON’T buy skins from the store. I primarily but Character Slots, Bag Slots and Bank slots from the store. Every once in awhile I buy mini-pets which are accessible by ALL character via the BANK. To be honest IF the skins were EASILY ACCESSIBLE by all characters on my account I’d actually buy them, since they aren’t I don’t. So, never assume that just because someone is complaining that they do not understand the mechanics or the current in-game policies. I know I’m not the only one that would buy skins if this were the case. The reality is if they were to change this mechanic and policy it would probably increase their store sales…I’m just sayin’. ;-)

This topic has been posted and reposted many MANY times since they added the unlocked reward section in the Achievement section. I agree and have posted many times on this. Hopefully ANET is working on this, though I’m not sure as they’ve never replied to any of the threads to my knowledge. Such a great system they added, but never use it!

Invictus.1503:

This topic has been posted and reposted many MANY times since they added the unlocked reward section in the Achievement section. I agree and have posted many times on this. Hopefully ANET is working on this, though I’m not sure as they’ve never replied to any of the threads to my knowledge. Such a great system they added, but never use it!

You are correct, and now they’ve released a new line of cool looking skins which I will not purchase. You see when I’ve purchased things in the stores in Rift, Defiance, WoW, SWTOR, and Age of Conan whatever I’ve purchased and/or rewards were unlocked for all characters. That’s something that I think would work well here.

When I first heard about skin unlocks back before the achivement overhaul with chests and stuff got released, I was so looking forward to the same treatment being given to metas for the living story stuff. This really should be available for meta reward skins and store skins, or else anet is acting pretty dumb.

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