Guild Wars 2

Pretty basic question, sorry if it’s been asked.

I have an ascended piece of armor on a light armor norn. I transmute norn T2 on it.

After the feature patch, I decide that I want to play elementalist in Fractals, so I want to swap this ascended armor piece to my charr ele.

Can he use it? I assume the Norn tier appearance will not send over, I don’t care about that. I just want to be able to use it without removing the appearance for my norn character.

Will this be possible or will it be stuck on the norn until I remove the transmutation?

No. When you transmuted it it became “Requires Race: Norn”. This is a physical equipping requirement similar to Light/Medium/Heavy armor. You can test this yourself by transmuting a piece of Fine gear to cultural; it will take on the look and be account-bound, but it will not be equippable by other races.

However you can transmute it to another skin and it will fix it again, as this will remove the racial requirement permanently.

Someone responded elsewhere with more or less the same by saying that you could even see this tag in the video that Anet released on wardrobes.

That kinda sucks. Not a huge thing to fuss about, but it would be cool if it would just assume the original appearance (ascended armor) when sent to a non-Norn.

But yeah, then there’s some logistics issues on that idea I’m sure.