Guild Wars 2

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Unlock-Past-Achievement-Skins

It’s a common issue.

Diviner.7405:

That kind of is your loss. Save everything. If you are going to to switch skins, you either de-transmutate the Living Story Skin so you have it or you just remake the entire armor piece and then add the skin you want onto the new one.

If you are lacking storage space, you either make mules or buy more bank tabs. If that is being filled up, then you need to question on what is important to you and what is not. Obviously other things were more important to you at the time, so you stuck with those things and now you are posting on the forums with regrets. Sure, we can all sit around and type “Yeah, we totally agree” but at the end of the day nothing is going to change and you just are kind of out of luck. Sorry.

There are always people who see these threads and want to be mean about it … but I agree with the OP. I think the old system was very bad and it forced us to make decisions that were not entirely fair, and which players today do not face. Anet should help give us a clean slate by just giving us the old achievement skins we earned. They are still showing in our Achievements pane as being earned, so it would be easy to keep it fair. Like … extremely easy, I imagine. Even if you don’t think this is necessary, I don’t see why you’d go out of your way to argue against it in such a punishing way—unless you really need to feel superior (and this is an MMO forum, after all).

Re-awarding these skins to the people who have demonstrably already earned them would make it so that all achievement skins were like the Zenith, Hellfire, and Radiant skins—the way they should have been from the beginning. This is, after all, the way that all skins are now, whether earned through achievements, bought, or found. Anet obviously thought the old system was bad. That’s why it was replaced. We’re just asking for Anet to consider helping with the damage that occurred under the old system.

Wanderer.3248:

If you had the skin and lost it or whatever, file a support ticket. They might take pity on you. I doubt many people would have destroyed un obtainable skins.

1. Many people have destroyed the skins OP is talking about—myself included: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/4-15-skins-update-Achievement-skins/3848016

2. Many of us have filed tickets; all of us have been told no, and instructed to post in the forum. Which is what we’re doing.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Transmuted skins will give you the two most recent items.

Actually, it’s the first and last skin that will be returned—the original skin of the item that had the stats, and the last skin that was on it.

I have the same problem as the OP and am one of the people who have posted about the issue (to the chagrin of Invictuses everywhere): https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/4-15-skins-update-Achievement-skins/3848016

I think if it was an Achievement award and is still visible as having been completed (we can even preview the skins we earned, still, from the Achievement pane), they should retroactively credit them to our wardrobe—in effect making them just like the other, newer Achievement skins (Hellfire, Zenith) which can be withdrawn infinite number of times, and had been that way even before the wardrobe system.

I fully support the upcoming update. Having played GW2 since day 1 of launch, I welcome the changes and feel they are well-timed. However, you probably know what I mean when I say that I stand to be penalized when we move to the new system.

I frequently have changed stats while trying to preserve my skins. I also have frequently bought the same outfit from the Gem store twice: once for PvE, once for PvP. Therefore, a significant focus of my gameplay up to this point has been acquiring gold to buy skins for both PvP and PvE, and buying Transmutation Crystals and new gear to put into old skins in PvE, and destroying old PvE gear and upgrades in the process.

Which is fine; I don’t expect to be compensated for that, necessarily. Anet is certainly not rushing to compensate old players like me.

My main issue is this: I’m sure I’m not the only player who has destroyed unique rewards in the process of navigating the current system. For example: one of the numerous transmutation tasks I undertook that I now regret was the transmutation of my karka shell backpiece from the second Southsun event with another backpiece, and the subsequent loss of the karka shell skin.

Unfortunately, this is the infamous “middle transmutation” problem, which the Transmutation Splitters failed to solve, and which the 4/15 update will fail to solve: originally, I transmuted the Karka Backpiece’s skin onto a Fractal Backpiece’s stats. Later, I put the Fervid Censer skin over the same backpiece—losing the Karka skin forever. My understanding is that the 4/15 update will only award me the Fractal and Censer skins (the “first and last” skins).

I would prefer it if Anet would, in this upcoming update, at least reward us the skins that we earned through Achievements, like living story events—regardless of whether we still have the skin, don’t have the skin, moved it to PvP and salvaged it, lost it in a middle transmutation, etc. Skins that, like the Karka Shell Backpiece, continue to be shown in our Achievements as having been awarded to us … SHOULD be awarded to us on 4/15, whether we still have it or not.

As the update stands now, it will prevent problems like the Middle Transmutation problem from happening for all new players, but continue to penalize players like me who have already encountered the problem: players that have played since Day 1, and who like skins. That doesn’t seem fair to me—especially since I actually like skins and am thus actually in Anet’s target audience for this game.

I have never posted anything like this (not even in the PvP forums, which is really what I care about), but I do feel strongly about this particular issue.