Guild Wars 2

I hope I am clear, if not I apologize:

When you transmute is it normal to lose the color quality on the gear you wanna keep equipped? I transmuted Orange (exotic) gear stats into Yellow (Rare) gear looks and now my equipped gear has a Yellow name, but Orange stats.

Look at the pic. In the transmute window you’ll see I have the look of Scout’s Gloves ready to be transmuted into the stats of my Berserker’s Emblazoned Gloves of the Eagle, which I am mousing over. When I do this I will keep the stats of the Berserker’s Gloves, but the name of the Scout’s Gloves… and the item quality as it appears in my Hero Screen will be yellow and not orange.

I hope I explained that well enough. Not saying you folks can’t understand, it’s just hard for me to explain. XD

Yes, it is normal. The new gear takes the name and color code of whichever skin you pick. At least that is my experience.

MacLeod.4208:

Yes, it is normal. The new gear takes the name and color code of whichever skin you pick. At least that is my experience.

Okay thank you. That’s rather silly, though. All I want is the skin of the the item, not the name written in the color of the inferior gear’s quality. So I have all these exotics, but when I transmute them, in my hero panel the names of all of the gear I transmuted look like rares. Why’d they do that, lol? It also sucks that transmute destroys one of the pieces of the gear, or destroys them both making a new one (however you wanna word it).

I will give it to WoW on that, their transmog (transmute) system was much less cumbersome than GW2’s.