Guild Wars 2

In the Bitterfrost Frontier, when you put on the Svanir disguise, you lose it when you exit the transformation. Is there any way to keep the three pieces, but drop out of the disguise?

IIRC the pieces are actually consumed when entering the transformation; which strongly suggests a no.

They do disappear, so that leans strongly in your direction. But, I’ll leave the question up in case someone has found a way (that isn’t an exploit, that is).

What are you trying to do that you need to keep the pieces after the transformation? Maybe there’s another way to do that, without worrying about the disguise later.

I just want to be able to go back later (to buy stuff from the Svanir heart guy). But, I experimented, and I got all three pieces in about 45 minutes, so I’m betting it’s not a long-term issue.

The disguise is a one-time-use thing. Anytime you want/need to use the disguise again, you have to kill Svanir to get the three pieces.

Just in case someone who has the same issue as I had stumbles over this thread:

The game engine knows which parts of the disguise you already looted. That way, you don’t end up with two helmets while you need another part.

Problem is that the devs didn’t consider the case that someone deletes a piece. If you cleared some Svanirs and don’t plan on disguising yourself, you might just delete a piece to make room in your inventory.

If you need the disguise at some point later, in a few weeks maybe, because you forgot to get the Mastery Point in that area or the diver achievement, you will be surprised that you cannot get all three pieces for the disguise.

The game thinks you already have that helmet you deleted 3 weeks ago, and therefore only drops the other two pieces. Took me about an hour of farming to figure out, then I deleted the two pieces I had. From then on it took me 3 minutes to get all pieces.