Guild Wars 2

Basically I’m trying to transmute the starter necro eyes to my lv 80 norn mesmer. The problem is instead of just transmuting the eyes like I want it also adds tattoos to the face of my female norn including a ninja turtle type tattoo and some other random tats on her face.

My norn doesn’t have any tattoos so this is either clearly a game bug or bad design. I don’t want tattoos, I don’t like tattoos, and it ruins the otherwise really cool transmutation for me.

Here’s my process:
Step 1) create new necro alt
Step 2) transmute eyes with basic stone to a low lv grey headpiece to make it account bound.
Step 3) transmute eyes with the upgraded transmutation stone so it can go on my exotic 80 gear
Step 4) QQ about tattoos. lol

If you remove the headpiece and then right-click and preview the item, do the marks still appear on your face in the preview screen?

I found this out too some time ago. The tats are part of the norn look when choosing that headpiece. I can’t recall the name atm. I even made a fresh norn necro just to choose that mask and found it is as you see it, with the tats. I actually like it on my norn necro. It is not a bug.

Well when I first made my norn I made her tattoo-less. It seems weird the game knowing I designed it for no tattoos would make an item force it on a race, especially since its different for other races, ie: humans just get the eyes. Now if humans had the tattoos too that would make sense, the item would be the same look across all races.

Now if this isn’t a bug it seems like bad design. And I really hope they fix or change this soon. My suggestion would be to make it just the eyes like the human race if the norn is tattooless, and add the tattoos if they have some on character creation.

Not a bug. Each race has different necro eyes face.

Don’t expect necro specific gear to work well on non-necro classes … It’s an unintentional, tolerated feature.