Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen a number of requests to have any skin purchase come with a transmutation charge, so as to save on bank storage space when waiting for the perfect alt to put a skin on.

I have a tweak to the idea, so as to avoid complications with tradeable skins: Add an option to a skin to convert it to a transmutation charge. If it’s locked, this unlocks it. If already unlocked, this just deletes the skin from inventory and adds a transmutation charge to the account. You don’t get the charge just for purchasing the skin, you have to actively convert it.

Thus you can still sell tradeable skins, and the buyer can then convert them to a charge along with an unlock. This does not take away from the need to gather charges as currently implemented, given that the skin gives you one free use anyway.

If the counter is “then people won’t buy more bank space,” well .. I -can’t- buy more bank space as I am maxed, and what I have is clogged with skins unlocked in wardrobe but still offering a use without burning a charge. If it was just a handful I’d toss them. But I calculated the value of all the charges I’d be destroying doing that and it was too large to do it in good conscience.

This seems like a sensible solution and I hope ANet consider it or something similar.