Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if weapon skins such as the Molten, Sclerite and the Jade weapons (after the Dragon Bash) will make a return.
They are really attractive skins and it would be a shame to cut off the access to them.

I wish they would bring the old GW1 skins here, IMO they were so much better looking, both weapon and armor.

Nothing is truly out of the question but I wouldn’t be expecting it any time soon. It took GW1 about 6 or 7 years before they started to repeat things (most development efforts was being focused on GW2 at that point).

The temporary availability serves at least two purposes. It makes the items somewhat exclusive, I believe the example the devs gave was a t-shirt you could only get at a certain concert. The other purposes would be to keep people returning to the game.

Next year’s Dragon Bash would likely have a different set of weapon skins.

DonRobeez.3560:

I was wondering if weapon skins such as the Molten, Sclerite and the Jade weapons (after the Dragon Bash) will make a return.
They are really attractive skins and it would be a shame to cut off the access to them.

Totally unknown. Looking at gw1 the game has mostly been on a one year cycle. meaning the temporary skins where avaliable once per year. The only exceptions where the festival hats, they where different every year for each festival untill GW2 was bout to come out and things where replaced for a fully automatic system.

The things with these skins are that it is a proof that you have been there to many. Now it sounds very normal to get e.g. the dragon wings, but if you are still playing in lets say 2020, it will be seen as an oditiy and a sign of deidcation to the game if you can still show the 2013 wings.

But it might be that they do something totally different then in gw1. So the true answer is unknown.

Well Colin Johanson stated very recently that most limited items will stay limited to keep their uniqueness. Example: Molten Jetpack will not become available later because it will punish the players who worked for it during it’s limited availability. Something like The Crossing or Arachnophobia, however, should end up becoming more popular due to the mats re-appearing.

There will be items that make a come back.
There will be some items that were a one time thing.
We will just have to wait and see which it could be.

Personally I like that there are items that are unique and will not come back. This to me gives characters personalities when they have unique skins, be they armor or weapons or even tools for that matter