Guild Wars 2

I think every characters made should include a good amount of transmutation stones. We all want to make our new character look cool while we do cool things. But we are testing tons of different gearing, and can run out quick even if we haven’t saved before hand. I think we should just get a bunch with every character. It doesn’t effect the main game in anyway, and the beta characters cant buy them anyways.

Please!

This would sound nice, since we can’t gain anything else out of Betas.

I for one would create “copy” of one of my character and play with it in Beta, being able to complete the look would be nice.

I don’t know if this is “intended”, but you can get 6 charges for each beta character by going to each of the cities (city completion reward is given the moment you first enter).

Raire.7983:

I don’t know if this is “intended”, but you can get 6 charges for each beta character by going to each of the cities (city completion reward is given the moment you first enter).

Plus the 3 you can get from orr by doing all the skill points.

roseria.7695:

Raire.7983:

I don’t know if this is “intended”, but you can get 6 charges for each beta character by going to each of the cities (city completion reward is given the moment you first enter).

Plus the 3 you can get from orr by doing all the skill points.

I think the OP wants a container full of charges rather than having to work for a handful (and there’s nothing wrong with this request). The cities for example, if it only takes you 10 minutes to do one then that’s a full hour to get 6 charges. Since he wants to try out different gear and keep the look with each trial then he neither of these suggestions work.

Oh good to know. I still don’t want to have to go out of the way for it though. I want to focus on the beta, and a lot less on zoning into cities. Just seems to me like just giving them to us would be nice, and easy.

It should not take 10 minutes to zone into a city. More like 6 minutes, tops (if that much) to obtain all 6 Transmutation Charges.

Still, it would be nice to have an amount included in that container full of goodies they give each beta character. On the other hand, it’s just a short-term opportunity to play, and everything is wiped later, so if it would involve too much development, I’d say it’s not that important.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

roseria.7695:

Raire.7983:

I don’t know if this is “intended”, but you can get 6 charges for each beta character by going to each of the cities (city completion reward is given the moment you first enter).

Plus the 3 you can get from orr by doing all the skill points.

I think the OP wants a container full of charges rather than having to work for a handful (and there’s nothing wrong with this request). The cities for example, if it only takes you 10 minutes to do one then that’s a full hour to get 6 charges. Since he wants to try out different gear and keep the look with each trial then he neither of these suggestions work.

it took me thirty seconds to do all of them. i clicked into each city once.

Lightsbane.9012:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

roseria.7695:

Raire.7983:

I don’t know if this is “intended”, but you can get 6 charges for each beta character by going to each of the cities (city completion reward is given the moment you first enter).

Plus the 3 you can get from orr by doing all the skill points.

I think the OP wants a container full of charges rather than having to work for a handful (and there’s nothing wrong with this request). The cities for example, if it only takes you 10 minutes to do one then that’s a full hour to get 6 charges. Since he wants to try out different gear and keep the look with each trial then he neither of these suggestions work.

it took me thirty seconds to do all of them. i clicked into each city once.

Thats right. I forgot they gave us partial map completions with this beta. I guess he could spend time making and deleting chars for this to farm charges, instead of playing the beta and trying out different builds.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Thats right. I forgot they gave us partial map completions with this beta. I guess he could spend time making and deleting chars for this to farm charges, instead of playing the beta and trying out different builds.

You may not have understood. The cities had FULL map completions. Simply zoning in would grant you a bunch of XP and the transmutation charge; depending on how long it took you to load the zone, it should take under five minutes to grab the six charges.

I do get what you’re saying, too, (charges are not game breaking and on a beta character there’s no problem granting a lot more of them), but on the other hand, since you get enough free charges for one full outfit for each character, it’s something the devs already sort-of put in place for us, and I suspect they have other concerns on which to focus their programming power.

If the devs ARE going to look at the stuff we have available, I’d love to see the “box of armor and weapons” thing turn into a “box of armor and weapons-usable-by-your-class”, because it is SUCH a drag to delete all the extra weapons from all three of the boxes. And as far as that goes, it would be so nice if they were different skins. i.e. the first stuff you have is the pearl weapons, the first box holds bandit weapons, the next box holds destroyer, the last box holds… i dunno what else there is, krait?

The point is that all the icons would look different. I used up my transmute charges not because I wanted to look pretty, but so that the icons for my carrion gear would all match, cele gear icons were a different look, etc. That made it a lot easier for me to swap gear sets from my bag instead of laboriously scrolling over identical icons to determine what stat set they belonged to.

It’s also worth pointing out that your beta account is cloned from your live account, if you have unspent transmutation charges on live then you’ll have them in beta as well. I reskinned all of my equipment (sometimes more than once) on each of my beta characters.