Guild Wars 2

I’m so excited about the new wardrobe system coming in April! My wife and I were wondering about a few specific features:

1. Will the unique ‘starter’ armor be an unlocked skin? And will you need to create a new toon to unlock each piece per class (each mask for Necros/Mes, both shoulder and helm for Guard, etc.)?

2. Will the skins unlock on purchase, or on use? (i.e. if we buy Cultural Tier 2 at low level, can we immediately use the skin, or must we wait until we can equip?)

3. Do we know for sure if the Transmutation Charges will be easily obtainable? Levelling in PVE you change armor every other Reknown Heart, and if I want to keep one look on my toon it would take a tremendous amount of charges. I have no level 80s, I don’t run dungeons or WvW at epic levels, and I don’t play the TP minigame – I’m just a humble, casual player in a 2-man guild who loves the lore and PVE world of GW – so “oh yeah, just grind them on your 80” would not be a useful suggestion. :-p

Any advice or confirmed info would be greatly appreciated!

I guess we haven’t had any hard info on these yet. Several other posters have shown concern over acquisition of Trans. Charges, but I think I understand now that the Wardrobe system isn’t meant to make it possible to change your armor more often than you do already – it’s only meant to make it easier to access unlocked looks across your account. In essence, it’s easier to get the armor/weapon skin you want, but you’ll never be able to re-skin your gear as often as better gear drops for pre-80 toons. I can deal with that, but lots of folks worry about the effects of this on town clothes. :-(

I’d still love to know about the unique starter armor skins, and the cultural gear skins, too. I’m assuming these are not changing – in effect you’ll need to be lv80 before re-skinning anything becomes practical, and you’ll probably have to re-create toons to unlock the special starter skins. I wish it wasn’t so, but it’s looking that way. Since actually playing the game and enjoying the content from 1-80 is the reason we’re here, it would be nice to be able to freely customize our toons before we hit max level and get kittened-out gear, without worrying about running out of Trans. Charges.

You might consider posting your questions in the Stickied Dolyak Express thread, as they are answering questions about the Feature Patch this time. =)

Thanks! I was looking at the stickies and just noticed that. :-)