Guild Wars 2

I believe this is not intended, but perhaps I am wrong.

For all of the past unlockable Living Story skins, getting those skins would unlock it for light, medium, and heavy armors. I had received one of the heavy face masks in a buried locked chest, and I purchased the heavy goggles on the TP, assuming that the skins worked the same way as they previously did. I then crafted the combined set, thinking that this would unlock the skin across all characters, as the skins have worked in the past, but I now find that I have only unlocked that skin for heavy armor. This is a problem, as I do not actually want this skin for heavy armor. I would prefer to have it on medium armor. I don’t even care about the stats on the helm, so that’s not an issue for me. Just the skin.

Is it possible to either make the skin work like they used to (unlocking for all armor classes), or to take away my heavy skin unlock and give me the medium skin unlock? For that second one, I understand that it wouldn’t be viable without taking away the actual helmet item, and I would be fine with that. Also, that option would probably make this thread become one that should be posted in support instead of bug (if it isn’t actually a bug), so it would need to be moved.

Anything that doesn’t have a weight designation is supposed to unlock for all weights. Meaning all skins with out this designation should unlock for all weights. Pretty sure this is the way they intended it other wise there wouldn’t also be medium and light armor weighted versions.

I understand why it occurred from a code perspective. The weights are on the items, so they unlock for that weight class.

However, going by all of the unlockable skins in season 1, when a skin is available on all three weight classes, it unlocks for all three at the same time. Have there been any other LS skins that were the same on all armor classes, but unlocked only one at a time?

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I understand why it occurred from a code perspective. The weights are on the items, so they unlock for that weight class.

However, going by all of the unlockable skins in season 1, when a skin is available on all three weight classes, it unlocks for all three at the same time. Have there been any other LS skins that were the same on all armor classes, but unlocked only one at a time?

The monocle (from the Aetherblade retreat) is the same as the Adventurer skins. You have to buy all three weight to unlock all three skins.

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I understand why it occurred from a code perspective. The weights are on the items, so they unlock for that weight class.

However, going by all of the unlockable skins in season 1, when a skin is available on all three weight classes, it unlocks for all three at the same time. Have there been any other LS skins that were the same on all armor classes, but unlocked only one at a time?

The monocle (from the Aetherblade retreat) is the same as the Adventurer skins. You have to buy all three weight to unlock all three skins.

Good to know. Looks like this was just me being uninformed, then. Can we get this thread closed? I’ll just chalk it up to not doing my research.

It’s because the Monocle and the Adventurer headgear are armor pieces in and of themselves. Stuff like the Zephyrite Helms or the Catcher backpieces were armor skins that could be applied to any armor weight, which was why they got unlocked across all weights.

Mind you, I’d much prefer it if the Monocle and Adventurer headgear also unlocked across all weights.