Guild Wars 2

That stinks.

However, if you want to use the skin, i believe you can actually put them on another asura character. (I know this works with orders armor and karma items so I assume it will still work with cultural armor) Just transmutate them to gloves bought from the tp and then put them in your bank. They will say “soulbound” but are not actually soubound to the character that transmuted them. Any other character can now remove them from the bank and, if it is an adventure class asura, can equip them.

However, since they are culturally bound, they can only be equipped by an asura.

One glitch. About a quarter of the time the item I try to transmute the skin to won’t take a transmutation (I’m not sure but I think this is when the item I bought origianly came from an armor vendor. Anyway, if this happens just buy a second glove from the tp and try again.

Yeah the transmutation stone works for armors too. I suspect they did this to provide a means of keeping favorite skins when you delete old toons. You can not trade the transmuted item to another player but can transfer it to another toon on your own account. It also works for cultural armors and will show the icon for the transmuted skin but when you put it on as toon from another culture it will show the armor appropriate for the toon wearing it rather than the culture the armor came from. So you can put charr shoes on a human but they will just look like human shoes. This also works for karma items so if your main has more karma than you know what to do with you can buy a karma item and transmute it for another toon. Again, I suspect this was intended as it gives a use for excess Karma on your main and the only karma items that this did not work for (recipes) have now been made account bound.

I vote

YES YES YES YES

to this.

I am so sick of nothing but trench for adventurers and nothing but butt capes for casters. My thief wants a shirt and my necro wants actual pants!

As it is I have found 1 fairly low level armor I actually like for each and keep using trans stones to keep the look on later armor – what’s the point of playing PvE if you never find any thing that looks better than what you had at level 15?

And, frankly, my war would kind of like that end level adventurer trench coat set from Orr to go with his cool rifle (rifle and chain mail just don’t seem to fit together)

So absolutely 10000000% yes!