Guild Wars 2

Scenario 1:
Skins have no level requirement, so your lowlevels will be able to use the skin.

Scenario 2:
Unlocking a skin does not modify the item (apart from Accountbinding it). You can unlock the skin and then use the item on a level 80 char, and ALSO use the skin on lowlevel chars.

Locker and Wardrobe and Transmutation stones:
The “PvP Locker” you were referring to does NOT exist anymore! You can now view your Skin locker at any bank NPC (it’s underneath the Crafting Mat Collections Tab). It shows you all skins in the game, and which of those you have unlocked.

The wardrobe accessible in your character screen allows you to change the skins of any item you have equipped. You can do this anywhere in the world. It also consumes Transmutation charges.

Transmutation STONES (and these other things, Transmutation crystals? Forgot what they were called) do NOT work anymore. If you use them, they will be consumed and you will get Transmutation CHARGES. These have the advantage of not taking up space (they go in your Hero Wallet, like Gold, Karma etc).
There were two different Transmutation items before (sub-80, and 80). This is not the case anymore. Any skin can be applied to any level weapon (of the same type) for exactly one Transmutation Charge. When converting, you need 3 of the sub-80 Transmutation items to get one charge, or one level 80 Transmutation stone/crystal/whatever they were called. (This leads to weird situations where you have some Sub-80 stones left over… I have one, no idea if they can be used in any way, or maybe I can get 2 more from somewhere, like exploration or story, but I doubt it. I still keep that one as a memento though xD)

Cicada.3596:

( this option only appear on equipment/skin that have no stat )

That is wrong. This option will appear on any item that has a skin you don’t have unlocked yet, but would require any sort of binding (account-bound on equip, soulbound on equip) to use. Having an item in your inventory that is either not bound ever (like white rarity items), or bound on aquire (like stuff you buy on the Black Lion Store) will automatically unlock the skin.

When the skin is NOT automatically unlocked, you can do so by rightclicking and then pressing “Unlock Skin…”. This will unlock the skin but ALSO Accountbind the item (note: Even “Soulbound on Equip” items will be accountbound, but will still soulbind when you equip them on any character).

Now, what exactly ARE skins:
In your Hero Panel, you now have three menus where you previously only had one. Equipment is like the old equipment panel. You click a slot, and then get a list of items that you have in your inventory that would fit that slot. The Dye menu is just like the old one as well.
The “Wardrobe” Menu will give you an interface much like the Equipment menu, but when you select something, it will display all the SKINS you have unlocked. Skin-unlocking is account-wide, and skins in the wardrobe are not consumed when you use them. Applying a skin will change the look of an item. It is essentially the same as transmuting one item’s look onto another item, but now you don’t have to keep the item anymore, and you can use the skin on as many items as you want once you have it unlocked (this works even with Legendaries! you can make any Greatsword look like Eternity, if you have the skin unlocked). Applying a skin will, however, cost one Transmutation charge. These are similar to the old Transmutation Stones. You can buy them in the Black Lion Store, but you will also get them by playing the game (I’m drowning in them as a PvP player).

EDIT: Shortened the quote to clarify what part of Cicada’s statement was wrong. The rest was completely correct. Salvaging and Equipping does unlock the skins from items that did not automatically unlock the skin, just like using the rightclick menu option does.

Soo, I decided to buy a Musical Harp last week. Then I was gone for a few days, and now I come back to see the Harp and other instruments on sale, with no official announcement beforehand.

Is there any way to get a refund on items that were bought just before a sale? If not, I guess I’ll not be buying anything outside a sale anymore, because otherwise I’d risk wasting my money…

Oh wow, thanks, I’ll have to farm for that then, I guess (I don’t play often, don’t even have a level 80 character yet :/ )

I didn’t play when the airship ticket was sold, and now seeing the 2 week version, my first reaction was to google for a permanent one and kitten , I was too slow :/ Will there be another chance to pick it (or something like it) up?