Guild Wars 2

The recent features release article says the following:

You will be given a one-time allotment of Transmutation Charges based on your rank in PvP so you can restore or change your looks.

Dulfy’s website has the following from the Livestream notes.

1 Transmutation charge per PvP rank after the patch

How’s this going to work? How many charges will be provided? Is it just 1 charge per rank for the account? (isn’t 1 charge needed for each item slot? or is it different for PvP sets?) Is this number that is provided then account based or multiplied for multiple characters on the account? Are there restrictions on the transmutation charge? Will the free charges be the same, whether for the look in PvE or PvP?

If the intent is that a player can at least fully transmutate one set of skins of his/her choice for each character that exists as of the update (“restore or change looks”)? with a greater bonus for higher ranks?

Some clarity would be helpful. Players might be interested to know whether they are and how many transmutation charges they would be receiving. Maybe they might more likely buy more character slots now before the update if they might be getting free transmutation charges (that would defray/offset some of the cost by getting the slot before the update) if it exists as of the update.

If the quantity of charges is also based on rank, would that be a multiplier that multiplies free charges? Would that be a huge boon to those in PvP with a high rank (also with multiple character slots)? (I don’t have an issue with it if it is)

Just curious what the plan is. Thank you.

The patch is removing PvP armor entirely, this means that your armor will look the same in both PvP and PvE. All of that was covered in the Ready up video, you should probably watch it

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/3968869

But to answer your questions:

You will receive 1 transmutation charge for every rank up after the re-balance. So if I was rank 50 and logged in and turned 80, I would get 30 free transmutation charges. Once I hit 80, every 20,000 rank points I get 1 free transmutation charge. Every reward track I complete, I also get 4 transmutation charges.

PvP stats are integrated into a special button call PvP build. It uses your PvE items but the stats are from the amulet in the window.

Thanks for the info. I was confused by the language of being given an allotment to restore (or change) your looks since I don’t really have much in ranks, but I have modified the look of a number of characters in PvP based on PvP item/skins acquired (e.g., through Achievement Points, etc.).

Rank is account wide, more character slots would not give you more ranks or more charges.

I play a good bit of both PvE and PvP, I will get 34+ charges from my useless transmutation stones and 32+ charges from my PvP ranks. Love these changes