Guild Wars 2

How about also cultural armor?
If you spend that much money on it, it would be awesome to alter the stats so you don’t need to use transmute charges to use it if you don’t use condition damage for example. We know the technology is there now because of the personal story rewards… is this possible also?

Cultural armor is Rare and isn’t really used for stats. If anything, changing it into a bunch of skins with no stats would make life easier, so you could apply it to exotics.

Yeah. Nobody’s buying the Cultural armor (especially T3) to use when they’re just Rare armor. They’re bought solely for the skins. ANet may as well just go the final step and make them all into apply-able skins. Forcing players to spend out hundreds of gold for them AND then use Transmutation Charges to apply it to their armor just feels a bit like them wheedling that little extra money out of your hand. It’s not a nice feeling.

dekou.6012:

Cultural armor is Rare and isn’t really used for stats. If anything, changing it into a bunch of skins with no stats would make life easier, so you could apply it to exotics.

Actually I use the cultural armor for leveling my alts, so that at least at level 35, 60 and 80 I don’t have to worry about my equipment too much (granted I don’t buy duplicates but I also only have 1 character for each armor type per race).

CureForLiving.5360:

Actually I use the cultural armor for leveling my alts, so that at least at level 35, 60 and 80 I don’t have to worry about my equipment too much (granted I don’t buy duplicates but I also only have 1 character for each armor type per race).

I usually only get the cultural weapons on alts.

CureForLiving.5360:

dekou.6012:

Cultural armor is Rare and isn’t really used for stats. If anything, changing it into a bunch of skins with no stats would make life easier, so you could apply it to exotics.

Actually I use the cultural armor for leveling my alts, so that at least at level 35, 60 and 80 I don’t have to worry about my equipment too much (granted I don’t buy duplicates but I also only have 1 character for each armor type per race).

I like to use them leveling too, at least the 35 and 60 ones, the 80 ones I usually get exotic by then because they are super expensive and it’s something I have to save up for..
but I level pretty slow so having rare armor at those levels AND it looks good makes leveling up a lot nicer, which is why I suggested altering stats. I usually use it a couple levels anyway but it kinda screws up my damage.

Turning them into skins would be ok.. but it doesn’t really improve the situation unless they made it cost zero transmute charges. I don’t see them doing that though because that means less gems spent on charges. At least wearing the armor is temporary and you can still transmute it later when you outgrow it

Zaxares.5419:

Forcing players to spend out hundreds of gold for them AND then use Transmutation Charges to apply it to their armor just feels a bit like them wheedling that little extra money out of your hand. It’s not a nice feeling.

The good thing is however that you can sell the armor directly back to the NPC after
you bought it, and so its a little cheaper since we got the wardrobe.

Beldin.5498:

Zaxares.5419:

Forcing players to spend out hundreds of gold for them AND then use Transmutation Charges to apply it to their armor just feels a bit like them wheedling that little extra money out of your hand. It’s not a nice feeling.

The good thing is however that you can sell the armor directly back to the NPC after
you bought it, and so its a little cheaper since we got the wardrobe.

That’s a good idea, I just destroy mine : (