it seems like a huge missing feature of the game honestly, you can’t even buy your original town clothes from the gem store, only new ones. Fortunately they are entirely unnecessary, and rarely seen anyway.
Note that you cannot also obtain another copy of the equipment item you pick during character creation. THAT is a pretty glaring oversight, IMO.
Actually you can get another equipment/armor item from character selection. It does require that you have a free character slot though and a couple of level appropriate T-stones.
You make a character with the item you want. Then you transmute that item to a low level white item of the same type. This breaks the soulbinding. You can then put it in the bank and the other character can pick it up and transmute the skin to the piece it is using.
I did it with the necro mask and the ele ‘floating glowing stone mask’ (whatever that headpiece is called) from character creation. Transmuted and put them on my regular characters,
So, If I make a new character – put town clothes in bank, delete character, create a new one, put the clothes in bank, log in with lvl 80 and transmutate both – bypass soulbound?
So, If I make a new character – put town clothes in bank, delete character, create a new one, put the clothes in bank, log in with lvl 80 and transmutate both – bypass soulbound?
You have to have something to transmute to in order to break the soulbinding. That is, another towns clothes. You would have to lose that skin, if it works. I know it works for armor and weapons. I’ve never heard of anyone transmuting town cloths.
Also when transmuting, the original character does the first step to breaking the soulbinding. Which means it would have to have 2 towns clothes to transmute together.
I’m going to give this a try – anyone suggest a ‘cool’ set of clothes?
EDIT:
Doesn’t work.
Recipient cahracter can’t take the item out of the bank to transmute it because it’s ‘soulbound to another character’
If you try to do it using the other (donor) character instead, you get a ‘Transmuting an item makes it soulbound’ message and can’t transmute anyway because the items are not of the same rarity/type
I’m going to give this a try – anyone suggest a ‘cool’ set of clothes?
After thinking about it, I doubt it would work as the T stones require you to select both a look and a set of stats.
I haven’t bought any town cloths from the gem store. As a guess if you really want to try it out you can buy two shirts, and merge them into one shirt. I don’t see how it would make a cool set of clothes since you can already mix and match if allowed. Transformation will only lose you an item without gaining anything.
I’m going to give this a try – anyone suggest a ‘cool’ set of clothes?
EDIT:
Doesn’t work.
Recipient cahracter can’t take the item out of the bank to transmute it because it’s ‘soulbound to another character’
If you try to do it using the other (donor) character instead, you get a ‘Transmuting an item makes it soulbound’ message and can’t transmute anyway because the items are not of the same rarity/type
Yah, the character needs to have one (its own) soulbound item and a second non soulbound item. At best you can merge a soulbound towns clothes to a gem store outfit.
It’s weird when you think about it. Anet are sitting on a potential gold-mine for Gem Store items yet they do nothing about it. They just offer a few miniatures and dyes with a sprinkling of ‘fun’ items like boxing gloves and a couple of hats.
There’s a cook’s outfit – doesn’t even LOOK like a cook (where’s the chef’s hat?).
It’s weird when you think about it. Anet are sitting on a potential gold-mine for Gem Store items yet they do nothing about it. They just offer a few miniatures and dyes with a sprinkling of ‘fun’ items like boxing gloves and a couple of hats.
There’s a cook’s outfit – doesn’t even LOOK like a cook (where’s the chef’s hat?).
imo they messed up with the town clothes. I think they should have used the gw1 costume system where they went over armor and you kept your stats and skills. They could have made very nice outfits that were compatible with the look of the game for people to wear in combat. These here are costumes from Guild Wars 1, wearable in combat, that I think are good examples of costumes compatible with this game.
