Possibly dumb question about transmutation and renaming weapons

I crafted the ascended greatsword Svaard's Claymore, then I put the Luminous Claymore skin on it so it's now named "Luminous Claymore". Just for shits I reapplied the original skin (Terracotta Antique Claymore) to it, but I notice that it gives it the skin name again. So is there any way to removed the "transmuted" status from this weapon or otherwise revert it to its original name Svaard's Claymore, or am I SOL?

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't believe you can restore an items transmutation status and name like that.

Nope, it will never be a “virgin” item again.

I have plenty of Legendaries I’ve “ruined” like this, sadly.

You can ... but it will cost you a bit of gold.

You can convert it to a grieving gs(simply because it is cheapest) then back to marauder. That will destroy the upgrades unless you have an upgrade extractor.

No, you can not; and nobody cares about from what you transmuted a skin nor does it matter in any way

@Valandor.9506 said:No, you can not; and nobody cares about from what you transmuted a skin nor does it matter in any way

You can, as @"Khisanth.2948" said. Or, rather, you can't, but you can instead use the current one and some oddments in the Mystic Forge to create a different one, then use the right different set of oddments to create the original one.

That is, you can use the Mystic Forge to replace the "damaged" one with a "clean one", but the clean one is a NEW item that's just like the original pre-damage one. For the OP's purposes, though, it is equivalent to being able to clean the item.

@Steve The Cynic.3217 said:

@Valandor.9506 said:No, you can not; and nobody cares about from what you transmuted a skin nor does it matter in any way

So you agree. Thanks. :P

@Valandor.9506 said:

@Steve The Cynic.3217 said:

@Valandor.9506 said:No, you can not; and nobody cares about from what you transmuted a skin nor does it matter in any way

Sort of. :p The effect is the same as if you could "clean" the residue of transmutation off of the weapon, but you are, indeed, not actually cleaning it. So you're right from a game-mechanical point of view, but the effect is definitely achievable (the OP can do something with the weapon and end up with one with the original name). And it's surely cheaper to MF the weapon into the "clean" version than it is to create a new one.

Where I do agree, though, is that (almost) nobody cares whether your weapon's look is "native" to the weapon or a later addition. I care that my Guardian/DH's GS that looks like Caladbolg Orchida really is Caladbolg Orchida, but nobody else does. (It's the only weapon where I actually care about that.)

@Valandor.9506 said:No, you can not; and nobody cares about from what you transmuted a skin nor does it matter in any way

I care, and the OP cares so yeah...

Some people care a lot about the descriptive text of items. That is why Sam sold at such a high premium even before Treasure Hunter was a thing: no one but the owner could see it, but the owner still liked it that way.

It's a different question as to whether ANet should update the game's mechanics to support this sort of preference, especially since it's only a handful of people even notice it.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:Some people care a lot about the descriptive text of items.

It constantly annoys me whenever I view the Legendaries I was foolish enough to transmute at some point, yeah.

I really, reaaaally wish that transmuting them back to their original skin would remove the transmuted status on them.

@"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:Some people care a lot about the descriptive text of items. That is why Sam sold at such a high premium even before Treasure Hunter was a thing: no one but the owner could see it, but the owner still liked it that way.

It's a different question as to whether ANet should update the game's mechanics to support this sort of preference, especially since it's only a handful of people even notice it.

Sam was only around 1/10th the value without Treasure Hunter ...

The actual code change to "fix" this should be approximately adding && (item.current_skin_id != item.default_skin_id) to the code block that determines whether it should render

"Transmutedname_of_skin"

or"Skin Unlockedname_of_skin"

@Khisanth.2948 said:

@"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:Some people care a lot about the descriptive text of items. That is why Sam sold at such a high premium even before Treasure Hunter was a thing: no one but the owner could see it, but the owner still liked it that way.

The actual code change to "fix" this should be approximately adding && (item.current_skin_id != item.default_skin_id) to the code block that determines whether it should render

"Transmutedname_of_skin"

or"Skin Unlockedname_of_skin"

ANet could sell a "transmutation restoration charge" for 100 gems to do this ;)

@Khisanth.2948 said:You can ... but it will cost you a bit of gold.

You can convert it to a grieving gs(simply because it is cheapest) then back to marauder. That will destroy the upgrades unless you have an upgrade extractor.

This is good to know, thanks! The question is do I want it enough to spend the gold on it...

@"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:ANet could sell a "transmutation restoration charge" for 100 gems to do this ;)

They could also just make it free :anguished:

@MoJoe.9063 said:

@Khisanth.2948 said:You can ... but it will cost you a bit of gold.

You can convert it to a grieving gs(simply because it is cheapest) then back to marauder. That will destroy the upgrades unless you have an upgrade extractor.

@"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:ANet could sell a "transmutation restoration charge" for 100 gems to do this ;)

I wouldn't but it would only cost 2g50s so it's not like a huge amount of gold.

haha I did this with a legendary backpack, because I wanted to have the stat swapping functionality on THAT character but the skin didn't fit it. But later down the track I wanted it back, rip now its a transmuted legendary with the legendary skin it was transmuted from.

Well, it's done... I crafted a new Svaard's Claymore, and it turns out you can just use a marauder's inscription without having to craft a different prefix first :)

They dident talk about crafing a totaly new one, just stat swap to one and then back to the other would only have cost 2 exotic insignias and the sigils you had in it.