Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to figure out armor/stats and am a bit confused. I’m looking to get a set of medium armor with Valkyrie stats (Power/Vit/Crit). It seems to me that the only set that has these stats is the Emlazoned set which can be crafted. I’m not a fan of the look of this particular set, and would like to have a different look. So I assume I would have to purchase/craft a set of Valkyrie Emblazoned armor and then get another set of armor from someplace else and transmute the stats to the new set.

Is this the only way I can get the Valkyrie stats on something other than the Emblazoned armor?

Yes, that seems to be the only way.

Pretty much yea