Guild Wars 2

I’ve had my Shortbow and Daggers transmuted for MONTHS. Why do I log in after this stupid patch and find them ruined? What the hell Anet? They still say “transmuted” but they have the default model. I am seriously kitten off and I don’t care how I’m acting. You screwed up Anet, why?

Well thankfully this isn’t a pay to play game, because I’d be cancelling my sub. Thank you for screwing me over Anet, I really appreciate it.

agree I want my mace back..

Same, mine have lost their transmuted appearance also. No need to overreact about it though, I’m quite sure it isn’t intentional and they’ll fix it.

Noticed that after the last patch a number of my items, transmuted and non-transmuted, had lost their unique skins. These were all skins obtained from the karma vendors in the Fields of Ruin, specifically: quickshot shortbow (2 unique skins) both reverted to the standard steambow skin; gear assisted longbow, reverted to standard steambow skin; enforcer’s shotgun, reverted to standard steam rifle – this one was not even transmuted.

The text description of the enforcer’s shotgun matches the original skin, so I’m guessing that this is not intentional and a bug.

It’s annoying for 2 reasons: 1. these were nice skins in a game which is already short of decent grind-free skins; 2. many people (myself included) will have already spent multiple transmutation stones on keeping some of these skins only to have them taken away for no apparent reason.

If skins can just be arbitrarily removed by any patch, it does make me wonder if transmutation stones aren’t ultimately just a waste of money.

Some official feedback on this would be welcome.

Maybe it is an side effect of this fix:
“-Weapons purchased with karma from vendors in Fireheart Rise, Iron Marches, and Fields of Ruin now have their intended skins instead of tier 3 cultural skins.”

I think it will be hard to fix if it is this way. (And yes, lv80 transmutation stone ARE a waste of money)

Thanks for that info.

Strange that the text description on the enforcer’s shotgun (‘If a shot misses, you stab’) matches the removed skin (which was bladed) but not the ‘intended’ one.

As for the other skins, would have been nice to have some warning that they were due to be changed before spending transmute stones on them. Wonder if there are any other skins still in the game that are ‘not intended’.

I had a bow skin from the karma vendor there which was changed since the patch. I had transmutated it onto a lvl 78 exotic bow, using the free transmutation stone. I’m sure there are people who use the paid stone to transmutate onto a lvl 80 bow. How is it fair to these people?

Nocturnal.5023:

I had a bow skin from the karma vendor there which was changed since the patch. I had transmutated it onto a lvl 78 exotic bow, using the free transmutation stone. I’m sure there are people who use the paid stone to transmutate onto a lvl 80 bow. How is it fair to these people?

It isn’t but obviously the devs believe it’s right to make the customer pay for mistakes made by the devs. Honestly it’s extremely bad policy by Anet and highlights buying anything from them is not worth the risk anymore since they don’t care.

Logged into my Engineer today to see my Rifle doesn’t look how it should any more. This is really annoying.