Guild Wars 2

I am confused. This armor skin says it is account bound. My issue is it is NOT completely account bound. I used it on my ranger continuing to transmog it up to 76 armor. Now I want to use it on my 55 Engineer but it won’t transmog down due to the gem stats on the piece it is on. There is no option to remove these stats so it will transmog to a lower piece. Therefore this skin is not account bound because I can only use it on my 80 ranger or wait until my engineer is high enough to use the same level stats. Even then I am not sure it will transmog to another character’s armor because the piece it covers says Soulbound. Am I missing something here and doing something wrong?

Is this the Hall of Monument armor? If so just go get some more at the HoM.

Also you can’t trasnmog armor your character is actually wearing. Try removing it first and then trasnmogrifying it.

Also, when you use these skins it automatically adds the gem in the upgrade slot. Since you can’t change that option, did you try dropping a lower level gem in it and then transmog it?

This is the Krytan armor set bought with gems so it is not connected to the HoM. I know the change they made where the armor has to be removed to transmog it but that still doesn’t work. What stopped the process was it would not accept the higher gem and stats on the 76 piece and there is no option letting you remove the stats to transmog it to a lower level piece of armor.

In GW1 once you bought a costume set you could get as many copies of it as you wished. Is that not the case for the gem shop skins?

It says on the transmog, you can only use it once.

You can use it over and over with transmog stones but I ran into the problem of the stats added by gems keeping me from transmoging to a lower level piece of armor. Wish they would make it like GW1 sets or the sets in HoM. Also it would be nice to have an option to take off stats if you are transmoging something.

There’s a simple solution to this issue, which has already been suggested. Simply overwrite the high level upgrade with a low level one, then transmute the armor.

Yes it worked! Placing a low level gem to get the stats down allowed me to transmog to a lower level armor. The Krytan Armor set was soulbound to a character because of transmogging the set over armor for her so I had to use her to change out the gems and transmog over the armor of my engineer to get it to work. So if switching it to another character it has to be transmogged over armor that has not been equipped and made soulbound. Thanks all for the help.