Guild Wars 2

I’m at work right now and can’t confirm on this, I’d like to know: I’ve been told that, when you spend a transmutation charge in a slot, you apply the skin to that piece of equipment itself, not “the slot”. So if you take off that piece and put another, since the look is effectively attached to the armor, you have to use more charges to apply the look you want to another equipment (it’s equipment-bound, not slot-bound).

First, is that true? Second, if I transmute, say, Dryad Headgear to an ascended head piece and pass to another character that’s not sylvari, will they be able to use or does the racial skins rule accound-wide usability?

Race, profession and armor weight are still exclusive, just as they were before the patch.

In other words, your human cannot use Norn armor, your Mesmer cannot wear your Thief’s hood and your Elementalist cannot use a heavy armor skin.

And about the first question? Is transmutation effectively as it was pre-patch (i.e. equipment-bound)?

Yeah – as far as I can tell it functions essentially the same way. The skin is still attached to the item, not your equipment slot.

Hendrixius.6083:

Yeah – as far as I can tell it functions essentially the same way. The skin is still attached to the item, not your equipment slot.

This is true.

What’s changed is that you don’t destroy the item you’re taking the skin from and once you’ve unlocked a skin you can apply it as many times as you like without getting another one.

So for example you buy one Medium Whispers Hood and you can give it to all your medium armor characters.