Guild Wars 2

Hi all!

I was wondering, would it be possible to transmute cultural armor to other races?

I love the Asura Heavy Armor and would love to apply it to my Human Guardian

If this isn’t possible I really hope that ANet allows this sooner than later.

Thanks!

No, it’s not possible. You can’t even preview it on the wrong race — used to be you could preview, and all sorts of interesting and ribald glitches resulted. It’s probably got technical limits the same way mixing armor weights does.

The original Flamekissed Light Armor showed they could adapt cultural armor to other races. Still, when you think about it, this is cultural as in what that culture wears. The backlash against putting human T3 on non humans was astounding; I really doubt ANet wants that kind of firestorm again.

Now, it would be nice if they offered up armor pieces inspired by the cultural stuff, which they actually did in the various dungeon armors, that anyone could wear. As it is I think the best we can hope for are more outfits. Right now we have Verdant Executor, very very sylvari, so much so that I find it foolish looking on any of my alts who aren’t ‘varis, and Gwen’s, old fashioned human style, among others.

Donari.5237:

No, it’s not possible. You can’t even preview it on the wrong race — used to be you could preview, and all sorts of interesting and ribald glitches resulted. It’s probably got technical limits the same way mixing armor weights does.

The original Flamekissed Light Armor showed they could adapt cultural armor to other races. Still, when you think about it, this is cultural as in what that culture wears. The backlash against putting human T3 on non humans was astounding; I really doubt ANet wants that kind of firestorm again.

Now, it would be nice if they offered up armor pieces inspired by the cultural stuff, which they actually did in the various dungeon armors, that anyone could wear. As it is I think the best we can hope for are more outfits. Right now we have Verdant Executor, very very sylvari, so much so that I find it foolish looking on any of my alts who aren’t ‘varis, and Gwen’s, old fashioned human style, among others.

Pff that’s just a pitty. Why not let the players chose themselves. People should stop complaining. If they don’t like it, they shouldn’t use it. Easy :-D

The thing is, people have bought cultural armor because it’s advertised as exclusive to the race. Going back on the promise of exclusivity will make a lot of people who spent hundreds of gold and wear cultural armor for that reason angry at another promise broken by ANet. There were a lot of people who were very unhappy when a female human cultural armor was altered a bit and released for every race to use and there was a long multi post thread about it.