Guild Wars 2

I really liked Braham’s Shield and Rox’s Quiver. I bought only a single set as I relied on the transmutation method of switching them between characters, though that turned out to be an unintended bug.

Now on my alt I really wish I had those skins too. Will we ever see a return of past Living Story skins?

Don’t count on it; they make too much money with their RNG skins from boxes and chests.

Buy the panda hats instead, so much better ;-)

Wait a sec…are we no longer able to transmute a skin onto a white or blue, thus making it account bound so we can have that skin available to our other characters? Was this ability removed? Can you link where you saw this functionality as being ‘corrected’ please? Or did you not mean to imply that it was a bug that has now been corrected and documented as being ‘fixed’ someplace and instead found out the hard way in-game that this method no longer works?

I’m tempted to try it out in-game again just to see if it still works like that, as I’ve not had reason to perform this action for a few weeks. I heavily rely on this ability for new characters, that’s why I hang on to all my old armors, for them, so I don’t need to buy new armors and instead use a few transmutation stones.

I couldn’t find the posts regarding this. But I just tested it myself, unable to drag soulbound items from bank to another character’s bag.

Anyone know any info on the topic of whether living story skins will make a return at some point?

Foehn.2489:

I couldn’t find the posts regarding this. But I just tested it myself, unable to drag soulbound items from bank to another character’s bag.

Anyone know any info on the topic of whether living story skins will make a return at some point?

You don’t drag the soulbound item from the bank to your other character.

You transmute the Item onto a White Account Bound Item, where it becomes account bound. You place that in the bank, and have your second character take the account bound item and use another stone to transmute it onto the piece you want.

I did this just last night.

The issue with Rox’s quiver, to my knowledge, is that there is no white back piece to serve as your transmute bridge.

StinVec.3621:

Wait a sec…are we no longer able to transmute a skin onto a white or blue, thus making it account bound so we can have that skin available to our other characters? Was this ability removed? Can you link where you saw this functionality as being ‘corrected’ please? Or did you not mean to imply that it was a bug that has now been corrected and documented as being ‘fixed’ someplace and instead found out the hard way in-game that this method no longer works?

I’m tempted to try it out in-game again just to see if it still works like that, as I’ve not had reason to perform this action for a few weeks. I heavily rely on this ability for new characters, that’s why I hang on to all my old armors, for them, so I don’t need to buy new armors and instead use a few transmutation stones.

What the OP means (or at least the way I read it) is that he does just that but wanted to buy a second set for his alts.

Jakkson.4076:

Don’t count on it; they make too much money with their RNG skins from boxes and chests.

Buy the panda hats instead, so much better ;-)

This is exactly what NCSoft wants. They want you to regret not getting an item so next time you’ll be more willing to make the purchase if you don’t have enough in-game gold to convert to gems (this is becoming more likely as they reduce drop rates etc). They understand human psychology and they have done a great job in building a system to suck you in to buying virtual items that have little or no value. I don’t approve of a lot of their practices but I do acknowledge their achievement.

If Rox and Braham come back for further adventures then I would expect to see the items back in the shop. Who knows when or if, though.

wtb this instead of RNG.

PsionicDingo.2065:

Foehn.2489:

I couldn’t find the posts regarding this. But I just tested it myself, unable to drag soulbound items from bank to another character’s bag.

Anyone know any info on the topic of whether living story skins will make a return at some point?

You don’t drag the soulbound item from the bank to your other character.

You transmute the Item onto a White Account Bound Item, where it becomes account bound. You place that in the bank, and have your second character take the account bound item and use another stone to transmute it onto the piece you want.

I did this just last night.

The issue with Rox’s quiver, to my knowledge, is that there is no white back piece to serve as your transmute bridge.

Foehn, the best way I can see for you to put the Rox Quiver skin onto a back piece for a different character, since you only have one that is on a soulbound back piece, but want to use it on a different character, is to purchase a back piece skin combo pack that also includes a blank white rarity back piece, like one of the charr or quaggan from the TP (whichever is cheapest so long as it is the version that includes a back piece, and not the version with just the skin), as the included back piece should be account bound.

· While on the character that your Rox Quiver is soulbound to, open the charr/quaggan combo pack so you have both the skin and the basic back piece that the combo included.
· Open a transmutation stone and drop in both your quiver and the blank back piece.
· Select the graphic of the Rox Quiver
· Select the blank/empty stats of the basic back piece from the skin pack.
(If your existing back piece has stats, then be sure to not include the stats from it, but select the non-stats of the blank account bound back piece you got from the charr/quaggan combopack.)
· Not sure if you have a gem or something on your existing pack, but I don’t know if including it will make a difference as the blank pack probably doesn’t have a level requirement so it might not even let you select the gem if you do have one on your souldbound back piece.
· Hit Transmute.

This should make it an account bound blank item with the Rox Quiver skin.

I’m not sure, but I think the skin for the charr/quaggan back piece can now be resold onto the TP without the back piece included, which is how there are some on the TP that do not include the back piece with them…I think. Not sure on that part.

Then, since your Rox Quiver is now on a back piece with no stats and is account bound, you can drop it in your bank and pull it out with your other character that you want to use the quiver on.

I’ve not been in this exact situation before with the back pieces that you seem to have found yourself in, but I hope this works out for you if you choose to try it. Though, if it does not work out as I mentioned it might, please do not hold me responsible as I am just throwing out some ideas to help you out.

Anyone else see any problems with the possible solution I’ve laid out?

This won’t happen, and you can blame all the drones that keep buying RNG boxes.

To everyone that buys RNG boxes, thanks for your help in making sure we continue to have to suffer with such a horrible system. The only way to force Anet to stop this RNG crap and just sell the skins is for people to stop buying the kitten boxes.

Do not buy RNG boxes.. do not use cash, do not convert your game gold.. just don’t buy them.