Guild Wars 2

So recently I was looking through my wardrobe and thinking back at the Living Story History achievement tabs, and I was looking at the items I unlocked during them, things like the Fused Gauntlets, Dragon Helm, etc. A few of these things I had to get rid of because of lack of storage space when switching armors on characters, and because of this, they are lost forever.

I don’t know about everybody else, but I personally believe it is a good idea to automatically unlock these achievement-based skins in the wardrobe. After all, we earned them, why should we lose them forever if we are simply trying to switch skins?

That kind of is your loss. Save everything. If you are going to to switch skins, you either de-transmutate the Living Story Skin so you have it or you just remake the entire armor piece and then add the skin you want onto the new one.

If you are lacking storage space, you either make mules or buy more bank tabs. If that is being filled up, then you need to question on what is important to you and what is not. Obviously other things were more important to you at the time, so you stuck with those things and now you are posting on the forums with regrets. Sure, we can all sit around and type “Yeah, we totally agree” but at the end of the day nothing is going to change and you just are kind of out of luck. Sorry.

nexblackheart.3471:

So recently I was looking through my wardrobe and thinking back at the Living Story History achievement tabs, and I was looking at the items I unlocked during them, things like the Fused Gauntlets, Dragon Helm, etc. A few of these things I had to get rid of because of lack of storage space when switching armors on characters, and because of this, they are lost forever.

I don’t know about everybody else, but I personally believe it is a good idea to automatically unlock these achievement-based skins in the wardrobe. After all, we earned them, why should we lose them forever if we are simply trying to switch skins?

Put in a support ticket. Worst they can do is say no and you are no worse off. If they can help you then good. If not, at least you tried everything.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Unlock-Past-Achievement-Skins

It’s a common issue.

Diviner.7405:

That kind of is your loss. Save everything. If you are going to to switch skins, you either de-transmutate the Living Story Skin so you have it or you just remake the entire armor piece and then add the skin you want onto the new one.

If you are lacking storage space, you either make mules or buy more bank tabs. If that is being filled up, then you need to question on what is important to you and what is not. Obviously other things were more important to you at the time, so you stuck with those things and now you are posting on the forums with regrets. Sure, we can all sit around and type “Yeah, we totally agree” but at the end of the day nothing is going to change and you just are kind of out of luck. Sorry.

There are always people who see these threads and want to be mean about it … but I agree with the OP. I think the old system was very bad and it forced us to make decisions that were not entirely fair, and which players today do not face. Anet should help give us a clean slate by just giving us the old achievement skins we earned. They are still showing in our Achievements pane as being earned, so it would be easy to keep it fair. Like … extremely easy, I imagine. Even if you don’t think this is necessary, I don’t see why you’d go out of your way to argue against it in such a punishing way—unless you really need to feel superior (and this is an MMO forum, after all).

Re-awarding these skins to the people who have demonstrably already earned them would make it so that all achievement skins were like the Zenith, Hellfire, and Radiant skins—the way they should have been from the beginning. This is, after all, the way that all skins are now, whether earned through achievements, bought, or found. Anet obviously thought the old system was bad. That’s why it was replaced. We’re just asking for Anet to consider helping with the damage that occurred under the old system.

A nice compromise might be to automatically unlock these skins in your Wardrobe if your account has completed the achievement linked with that item.

Personal request: This should also work with the basic Mad Memoires skin. While it technically isn’t a progression skin, the player HAD to have completed and acquired the basic skin in order to get the Mad Memoires complete skin. It only seems fair to get the basic version unlocked if you have the flaming version.

While it is, without question, the OP’s fault, Doctor Chung Man’s post is excellent, and that is, without question, what should happen.

Make it so, Anet!

Definitely agree with Doctor Chung.

One thing I’d like; swap the panel out of the Achievements screen with the Achievement Reward Skins on it, now that they’ve doubled up. It bothers me.

Would it be easy to do? I don’t know enough about programming to know.

Yes the achievement panel records which achievements (and therefore which achievement skins you’ve earned) but is it possible to make a code that can check that, check if you’ve got it and mail you the ones you’re missing?

And if the second part is difficult would an acceptable compromise be to send a second copy to everyone who earned them and accept that people who did keep them get a free second copy? (Which with some items means getting a free exotic with either selectable stats or a good stat combination.)

IMO it has to be something that’s done automatically or not done at all. Because expecting Anet staff to check every account manually would require a huge amount of man power, which would mean delaying everything else those staff could be doing (most likely dealing with more important support tickets like hacked accounts).