Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’ve been away from GW2 for a while and have a question regarding armor skins now. I have a Norn Guardian who got the Tier 3 Cultural Armor set, all 6 pieces. Then at some point in time I got her an armor skin from the gem store and, wanting to keep item stats, transmuted it onto her cultural armor. This was a bit before the new wardrobe system was announced and then came around.

My question is: Is it possible to split the item again, to unlock the T3 Cultural armor? I would really prefer not to have to buy it again in order to get it for my wardrobe and mess around with my character’s outfit a bit more…

Thank you for any and all help!

Senario 1
You got the cultural armor and did not transmute it. You kept the original (rare) stats and these are the stats currently used by your armor set.

If this is the case then as Highchu said equipping the set will unlock both the gem store armor and the cultural armor in the wardrobe. Which will allow you to swap back to the cultural set or use it on any of your other norn characters.

Senario 2
You got the cultural armor and transmuted it with another set to give it different stats. You then transmuted it again, keeping the stats and adding the gem store skin.

In this case you cannot get the cultural armor back because it’s completely gone – both the stats and the skin that were originally part of the cultural armor have been replaced.

If you just equip the set it should unlock both the original and transmuted skins in your wardrobe.

Danikat.8537:

Senario 1
You got the cultural armor and did not transmute it. You kept the original (rare) stats and these are the stats currently used by your armor set.

If this is the case then as Highchu said equipping the set will unlock both the gem store armor and the cultural armor in the wardrobe. Which will allow you to swap back to the cultural set or use it on any of your other norn characters.

Senario 2
You got the cultural armor and transmuted it with another set to give it different stats. You then transmuted it again, keeping the stats and adding the gem store skin.

In this case you cannot get the cultural armor back because it’s completely gone – both the stats and the skin that were originally part of the cultural armor have been replaced.

Ah… yeah, I’m afraid Scenario 2 is what happened. And with the Transmutation Splitters being removed from the gem store, I suppose the only way to get the T3 back is to… sink all that money into it again. Oh joy, but at least I can be sure it’s my own fault ^^ Thanks for the quick help!

Even with Transmutation splitters you wouldn’t be able to get it back.

All a splitter does is give you back the two items that currently make up the one you split. So you get the stats with their original skin and the skin with it’s original stats.

But in your case neither of those is the T3.

Ah! I see, got it know. Should have probably thought that through better before I did it. Again, thanks for the clarification!