Whisperer's Armor
Unfortunately, there’s not. You’re stuck with whatever faction you chose for that character, and since all the armor is soulbound once you purchase it, it wouldn’t work to make an alt join the order of whispers either.
Actually, this does work rather well. 
1. I ran an alt up to around 26-27 and joined the Vigil (I wanted the leather pants).
2. As soon as I joined, I was able to run out to the vendor and buy the pants with my Guardian (who can’t wear armor of that type, which is important later).
3. Used the lowest level character I had (I’m cheap :p) to buy the cheapest ‘white’ leather legs I could from an armor vendor in a city, and threw it in the bank.
4. My guardian picked up the white pants from the bank, and used a ‘Fine’ transmutation stone (since the source is a level 80 item), to transmute ‘only the look’ onto the white lets, keeping the stats of the white legs intact.
Two things to note here:
1. You are allowed to transmute things, apparently, using a character that could never use those items because of class restrictions.
2. Even though it warns you that the resulting item will be soul bound, the item I received was ‘account bound’. Whether this is a bug that will be patched later or not, I can’t say, I did this less than a week ago. It would be a shame if they did, I can’t think of any reason to put in such a punishment. They got me to spend money, what do they care?
5. Put my new low level ‘account bound’ white pants in the bank (with the look of the Vigil legs).
6. Login my Ranger, pick up the ‘account bound’ white pants, and used a ‘basic’ transmutation stone (because I was not level 80 at the time and wanted to put them on the pants I was currently wearing, though I know I’ll need a ‘fine’ when I eventually morph them on my final Exotic armor) to apply the look to my current legs.
7. Result: Whispers top with Vigil leggings.
Unfortunately, there’s not. You’re stuck with whatever faction you chose for that character, and since all the armor is soulbound once you purchase it, it wouldn’t work to make an alt join the order of whispers either.
Actually, this does work rather well.
1. I ran an alt up to around 26-27 and joined the Vigil (I wanted the leather pants).
2. As soon as I joined, I was able to run out to the vendor and buy the pants with my Guardian (who can’t wear armor of that type, which is important later).
3. Used the lowest level character I had (I’m cheap :p) to buy the cheapest ‘white’ leather legs I could from an armor vendor in a city, and threw it in the bank.
4. My guardian picked up the white pants from the bank, and used a ‘Fine’ transmutation stone (since the source is a level 80 item), to transmute ‘only the look’ onto the white lets, keeping the stats of the white legs intact.
Two things to note here:
1. You are allowed to transmute things, apparently, using a character that could never use those items because of class restrictions.
2. Even though it warns you that the resulting item will be soul bound, the item I received was ‘account bound’. Whether this is a bug that will be patched later or not, I can’t say, I did this less than a week ago. It would be a shame if they did, I can’t think of any reason to put in such a punishment. They got me to spend money, what do they care?
5. Put my new low level ‘account bound’ white pants in the bank (with the look of the Vigil legs).
6. Login my Ranger, pick up the ‘account bound’ white pants, and used a ‘basic’ transmutation stone (because I was not level 80 at the time and wanted to put them on the pants I was currently wearing, though I know I’ll need a ‘fine’ when I eventually morph them on my final Exotic armor) to apply the look to my current legs.
7. Result: Whispers top with Vigil leggings.
Still works?
I will try it today. Thanks!
Unfortunately, there’s not. You’re stuck with whatever faction you chose for that character, and since all the armor is soulbound once you purchase it, it wouldn’t work to make an alt join the order of whispers either.
Actually, this does work rather well.
1. I ran an alt up to around 26-27 and joined the Vigil (I wanted the leather pants).
2. As soon as I joined, I was able to run out to the vendor and buy the pants with my Guardian (who can’t wear armor of that type, which is important later).
3. Used the lowest level character I had (I’m cheap :p) to buy the cheapest ‘white’ leather legs I could from an armor vendor in a city, and threw it in the bank.
4. My guardian picked up the white pants from the bank, and used a ‘Fine’ transmutation stone (since the source is a level 80 item), to transmute ‘only the look’ onto the white lets, keeping the stats of the white legs intact.
Two things to note here:
1. You are allowed to transmute things, apparently, using a character that could never use those items because of class restrictions.
2. Even though it warns you that the resulting item will be soul bound, the item I received was ‘account bound’. Whether this is a bug that will be patched later or not, I can’t say, I did this less than a week ago. It would be a shame if they did, I can’t think of any reason to put in such a punishment. They got me to spend money, what do they care?
5. Put my new low level ‘account bound’ white pants in the bank (with the look of the Vigil legs).
6. Login my Ranger, pick up the ‘account bound’ white pants, and used a ‘basic’ transmutation stone (because I was not level 80 at the time and wanted to put them on the pants I was currently wearing, though I know I’ll need a ‘fine’ when I eventually morph them on my final Exotic armor) to apply the look to my current legs.
7. Result: Whispers top with Vigil leggings.
Very interesting! I am a little confused though. Is your lvl 27ish alt the same as the guardian who bought the pants? And do you have to buy the armor on a different character right away after joining an order?
So I have a lvl 80 ranger in order of whispers. I have a guardian who i am going to join vigil with. When my guardian joins the vigil, I buy the armor on the guardian in order to get it on my ranger?
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@Joey – Yes.
Ranger (at the time) 65ish.
Guardian to 27 to join the Vigil, go shopping, buy leather pants from vendor, transmute onto white low level pants, merging the display, but keeping the low level white stats (stats on level 70 item gone) and the result is an ‘account bound’ really bad piece of white armor…that looks really nice. Drop it in the bank, Ranger picks it up and transmutes it onto whatever (just pulling the look).
Ironically, ‘after’ I had already bought the leather legs, it was at that point that I had the concern that I wouldn’t be able to transmute it because it wasn’t an item a Guardian could use. Luckily that doesn’t matter. The soulbound warning ended up being account bound, and I had read a bunch before hand and the consensus seemed to be that wouldn’t happen. It was a nearly 2g gamble, but it paid off.
Just in case, here’s my Ranger with Whisper (chest)/Vigil (legs). Hands are crafted, I think the boots might be too. Was looking for the least bulky things I could find. I suppose I could have photo shopped it, but I’m not that smart.
Edit: And to reiterate, it’s the Guardian that does the first transmutation. The guardian will need a ‘fine’ stone (since the source is level 80), and your Ranger will need a fine stone if applying it to 80 armor. The first transmute is done to a vendor white. I wouldn’t risk doing it to a blue, green, crafted, etc. Vendor bought cheap white bought with your lowest level character.
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@Joey – Yes.
Ranger (at the time) 65ish.
Guardian to 27 to join the Vigil, go shopping, buy leather pants from vendor, transmute onto white low level pants, merging the display, but keeping the low level white stats (stats on level 70 item gone) and the result is an ‘account bound’ really bad piece of white armor…that looks really nice. Drop it in the bank, Ranger picks it up and transmutes it onto whatever (just pulling the look).
Ironically, ‘after’ I had already bought the leather legs, it was at that point that I had the concern that I wouldn’t be able to transmute it because it wasn’t an item a Guardian could use. Luckily that doesn’t matter. The soulbound warning ended up being account bound, and I had read a bunch before hand and the consensus seemed to be that wouldn’t happen. It was a nearly 2g gamble, but it paid off.
Just in case, here’s my Ranger with Whisper (chest)/Vigil (legs). Hands are crafted, I think the boots might be too. Was looking for the least bulky things I could find. I suppose I could have photo shopped it, but I’m not that smart.
Edit: And to reiterate, it’s the Guardian that does the first transmutation. The guardian will need a ‘fine’ stone (since the source is level 80), and your Ranger will need a fine stone if applying it to 80 armor. The first transmute is done to a vendor white. I wouldn’t risk doing it to a blue, green, crafted, etc. Vendor bought cheap white bought with your lowest level character.
Thanks! Now I have more motivation to level my guardian!