Guild Wars 2

Is anyone else hesitant to use skins right now due to potential changes to skins/transmution stones? I know some things about stone use has been datamined and this last update made previous rare skins tradeable. Personally I am hoping to see some sort of storage system akin to the PvP locker at some point. But in the meantime I feel like I don’t want to use anything because I don’t want to lose it or my current skins and then have sweeping changes come to the skin system shortly after.

What changes to stone use are you talking about?

Some data mining has found item descriptions suggesting stones or items that will allow stat changing on items as well as others changes to the skin system allowing skins to be removed, the skin underneath to be recovered, and the removed skin to be saved or applied to another item. Makes me think changes are in store. I really hope they are because the current system really don’t encourage much change.

I was hoping for a Reddit link or something similar.

I’m with you though. I would LOVE an Armor/Weapon wardrobe for PvE similar to what PvP gets. By all means, make it so that you need to pay Transmutation Stones/Crystals to switch skins, but it at least frees us up from having to lug around multiple sets of armor at one time.

It is on reddit I believe. If not it can be found through google. I am just not comfortable linking datamined content as it has earned me infractions in the past.

posted on reddit 20 days ago
http://en.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1jswc4/data_mining_upcoming_features_and_changes_from/

Advanced Transmutation
109841_0956 Recover Transmuted
109841_0957 Will return the original appearance item and stats item from an existing transmuted item. All items will remain soulbound.
109841_0958 Recover Upgrades
109841_0959 This tool will remove the upgrade from any item, without destroying either the upgrade or the item.
109841_0960 Customize your Stats!
109841_0961 Change the stats combination once on a particular piece of equipment. Item will become soulbound. Combination choices are limited by item type, level, and rarity.
109842_0205 Item Stat Changer
109842_0206 Double-click to separate a transmuted item into the two base items it is made from. If the target item has been transmuted more than once, only the current appearance item and the current stat item will be recovered.
109842_0207 Transmutation Splitter[s]
109842_0208 Removes the upgrade from any item, without destroying the item.
109842_0209 Upgrade Removal Tool

Interesting… The Bank Space and free 200 gems Anniversary gift sound especially appealing.

back space +250 per slot not enough though.

if the limit is only 250 + 250 = 500 per slot

I’m going to need the ability to stack gear just due to the amount of gear I have to carry around or keep in my bank just to keep the skins. Any plan on adding that? And now they are presumably adding all new SAB skins and ascended weapons… Anet we need a better system for this already. Is anything being looked at as a solution? You are hurting your own longevity of endgame by limiting how skins handled. Who wants to keep participating in events just to have to keep buying more bank space and have to worry about using anything they get because they may lose it. The system is counterproductive to the direction that you chose to be the endgame.