Guild Wars 2

I have read some posts ( don’t remember where or when ) which imply you can get different Order’s Armor by purchasing them on a different toon, putting them in the bank and then using trasmutation stones for other toon.

Can somebody please confirm that it indeed works (especially after flame & frost ) and explain how to exactly do it ?

Thx

azazil.9541:

I have read some posts ( don’t remember where or when ) which imply you can get different Order’s Armor by purchasing them on a different toon, putting them in the bank and then using trasmutation stones for other toon.

Can somebody please confirm that it indeed works (especially after flame & frost ) and explain how to exactly do it ?

Thx

I haven’t tried with the current patch but the mechanism behind this should no longer work unfortunately. Here is how it was done:

On character 1 (who has joined the order that has the gear you want to use on character 2), buy the gear.
Use a transmutation stone to transmute the looks of the order gear to a cheap, white or blue item. (Although the item said it was soulbound, it was really not the case). Put the transmuted item in the bank.
Switch to character 2, pick up the item and transmute its skin to an item with the desired stats.

The reason why it should no longer work is this: since last night’s patch, on transmute the resulting item takes over the highest “quality / rarity” of the 2 items used. Since the trick only worked because white and blue items didnt get soulbound but rather accountbound, you’re out of luck now, as order gear is yellow quality (“rare”) and any transmute will make the new item rare or better (and therefore, soulbound to that character).

Thank you paradox for your detailed explanation.

You’re welcome! I haven’t read any confirmation so far that it is indeed impossible to do now though. That would need some experimenting I guess.

Dont know about armors, but it is still working with named exotic weapons. I transmutated my Stygian Blade with white item with Fine transmutation stone, and it is account bound and sitting in bank, waiting for my warrior to reach 80 lvl. So It is still working. It is good way for anet to selling fine transmutation stones, since u need 2 per item with that. Cheers

Voltron.1043:

Dont know about armors, but it is still working with named exotic weapons. I transmutated my Stygian Blade with white item with Fine transmutation stone, and it is account bound and sitting in bank, waiting for my warrior to reach 80 lvl. So It is still working. It is good way for anet to selling fine transmutation stones, since u need 2 per item with that. Cheers

Stygian blade is a mystic forge sword, right? Beats me why you would transmute it to get it to another character, as it’s not soulbound in the first place, or did you use it and then decided you’d transfer it to another toon? Did you transmute it before the patch or after? Did the white item get exotic after the transmute or is it still white?

Paradox.5498:

Voltron.1043:

Dont know about armors, but it is still working with named exotic weapons. I transmutated my Stygian Blade with white item with Fine transmutation stone, and it is account bound and sitting in bank, waiting for my warrior to reach 80 lvl. So It is still working. It is good way for anet to selling fine transmutation stones, since u need 2 per item with that. Cheers

Stygian blade is a mystic forge sword, right? Beats me why you would transmute it to get it to another character, as it’s not soulbound in the first place, or did you use it and then decided you’d transfer it to another toon? Did you transmute it before the patch or after? Did the white item get exotic after the transmute or is it still white?

I was using it on my guardian, but I am changing my main to warrior, so I used this method to trasnfer skin for him. Yes, it is MF weapon. I transmutated it after patch, as well, as 2 hours ago my Magmaton (also for warrior) with white item, and now it is Exotic with white stats, but it is “Account Bound”. Thats all about “rarity change”.

Seems to me, now Items that were exotic, still have exotic status after transmutation (due to Legendary status fix) but they are still Account Bound if you use this method. Hope I helped.

Ok thanx for the info! That means the cross-order-transmute might still work!

Thank god. That is really not something they need to “kill” =/

Heh, just loose an exotic trying to do that transmutation. I crafted berseker longbow for my ranger, went with my engi to buy Ebon Vanguard Longbow and when i transmuted it, it became soulbound to my engineer, so i lost the darn bow and teh karma used to buy the skin. NICE….

zeithgeist.8561:

Heh, just loose an exotic trying to do that transmutation. I crafted berseker longbow for my ranger, went with my engi to buy Ebon Vanguard Longbow and when i transmuted it, it became soulbound to my engineer, so i lost the darn bow and teh karma used to buy the skin. NICE….

You’re supposed to transmute the skin to a white bow first to make it account bound, then transmute it to the exotic with your ranger. You could still do that if you haven’t done anything with the bow yet. Though you will still be out the exotic.

Still works.
So I just tested this and I have to say it still works perfectly fine on 4/5/13. Thought i would share my experience with all curious people out there