Guild Wars 2

I have the following items:
Rox’s Quiver
Rox’s Bow
Wintersday Earmuff
Wizard’kitten

All the said items, I’ve acquired them before the “Wardrobe Overhaul Patch”. My problem now is that the said items, when I try to use them as a “SKIN”, the game is asking me to pay for “TRANSMUTATION CHARGE”. I should not be paying for any charge on this items when I am putting them as a skin.

Here’s a sample, The Rox skins which I even filed a ticket (Reference: 1748708:Rox Quiver and Bow Skins) for then they directed me saying its a bug. This is unacceptable. its been months since the update!

This is frustrating! Now I have to wait for it to be resolved instead of me just enjoying the game which I so very well know that it won’t be since you got the expansion which is just around the corner hence majority of your focus will be there.

additional screenshot for the bug report.

additional screenshot for the bug report.

additional screenshot for the bug report. Again like what I said, skins are unlocked already but is still charging me to skin it on any of my armors.
The items are:
Rox’s Quiver
Rox’s Bow
Wintersday Earmuff
Wizard’kitten

When you purchase a skin from the Gem Store, you receive one one-time use skin, and the ability to add the skin to your Wardrobe.

After the first application of the skin, each and every subsequent application will cost one Transmutation Charge.

You can, if you so desire, even skip the one-time use (of the skin) and add it directly to your Wardrobe, and pay one Transmutation Charge even for the first use.

The only things that cost no Transmutation Charges are clearly marked as such; i.e. Outfits, HoM skins, AP skins, etc.

Good luck.

So basically its money grab all over again…

Lockon.5312:

So basically its money grab all over again…

Not really, since you can get transmutation charges by playing pvp, doing map completion (one guaranteed for each major city, and a chance for one for every other map), daily login rewards, etc.

In your screenshots, btw, the items you’re displaying aren’t the Skins from the gemstore. They’re items you applied the skin to, which means you already used up your one free transmute of the skin on those items. So, every other use of the skin on a new item requires a transmutation charge.

Transmutation charges are easily obtained, I got one for each home city+la, and one for each starter zone. I believe that came out to 11?
Plus some in PvP, and 3 per 28 days in the logon rewards.
And since there’s no level requirements (well, for paid accounts) for home cities this can easily be repeated with new characters if one really wants a few charges.

Lockon.5312:

So basically its money grab all over again…

Gemstore skins work like any other skin in the game: one free use; future uses require a transmutation charge. As noted above, charges aren’t hard to come by.

tl;dr not a bug, not a “money grab” (or at least, no more so than the rest of the wardrobe)