Guild Wars 2

So it’s been mentioned that some day we’ll be able to use PvP skins in PvE. I’m just wondering if the skins will be one-time use and we should be saving our duplicates, or if we only need to deposit one for multiple uses? I’ve been breaking down all my dupes into crafting materials, not sure whether I should still be doing this.

And if skins are intended to be one-time use, can we maybe get a patch that allows more than one to be deposited into the locker?

No one really knows at this point. ANet’s been playing their cards pretty close to their chest.

Personally I’m hoping it’s a “deposit one skin to unlock it, then pay Transmutation Stones/Crystals to spawn additional copies” system. Skins that are unlocked via AP (e.g. Zenith skins), the HoM (Heritage skins) and meta completions (Fervent Censer) are free and can be spawned as many times as you like.

i think it is 2 buttons.

1. use pvp / pve armor
2. use pvp / pve weapons

If they’re going to be simple, they’ll simply copy and reverse the PvE to PvP skin function, meaning you’ll lose the PvP skin. With the way they currently do things, I doubt they’d want you to be able to create an infinite amount of copies, so I would expect it to be a 1 time use and soul bound.

What the game needs however is a wardrobe. A system that allows you to pick whatever skin you want once you’ve unlocked it, similar to the achievement or HoM skins, but costing a transmutation stone. Considering GW2 is supposed to have a cosmetic end game, this should have been a high priority feature.

To be safe, keep any duplicates, assuming you want the skin.

i still think it will be like town clothes system,

one click to switch to PvP gear
another click to switch to PvE gear

I’ve actually never even used a PvP skin before, so I decided to try it just now out of curiosity, and even in Heart of the Mists you need one skin for each character. Or doubles if you’re running dagger/dagger pistol/pistol etc. So now I’m confused as to why the locker exists at all if we can’t stack multiple skins in it…

Now I feel kind of dumb for salvaging all my duplicates without even bothering to check if they were needed. There are probably a number of rare skins that I broke down into materials that I should’ve just equipped onto one of my characters instead for storage.

Also just noticed that all my PvP gear is marked “soulbound” so I had to verify that they actually were account bound by switching to different characters and equipping skins. I’d basically just been collecting one of each in my locker like museum pieces rather than actually using them up until this point, so I wasn’t at all familiar with how they worked. Figured if you could only deposit one, you only needed one. But now that I know I need multiple skins for different characters I’m very confused as to why the locker only takes one deposit?