Ascended armor transmutation
With the wardrobe system they removed Transmutation Splitters so I don’t think you can change it without another lvl 80 Light Armor character to equip and transmute it. If nothing else you can try contacting support and see what they can do for you.
It shouldn’t matter. The game should just read what the equipment is (ie. light, Ascended, type of stats), rather than the skin. What happens when you tried to equip it on a different character?
I think it might read the skin and deny equip. If it doesn’t deny then it would bug and display the other races cultural armor maybe?
If you have a spare character slot I guess you could try making a character of that race and see if you can equip the armor and change the skins to something else. Otherwise you are going to have to talk to support and see if there is anything they can do.
Anyone with ascended armor transmuted to cultural and another lvl 80 of a different race with the same armor class to test it out?
Since you just rerolled it once already you can revert it to the race in question to transmute the skins back to a neutral state and redo it again.
If you want to be super efficient spend any skill points on forge stuff since it’s account bound now.
Anyone with ascended armor transmuted to cultural and another lvl 80 of a different race with the same armor class to test it out?
Yes, I have. I bought a couple of cultural (Sylvari) pieces to put with my TA set on my Sylvari Guardian. When ascended went account bound I tried to use it on my Norn warrior and it would not work. I knew before hand that it would not but wanted to try it anyway. So I just bought the remaining TA pieces and transmuted them over the cultural ones.