Guild Wars 2

Recently I used my low-level alt to buy a jeweler recipe from a karma vendor in Caledon Forest. Now that recipes are account bound again (big thank you, Anet!) I was able to toss it in my storage, pull the recipe out and learn it on my main, who is a jeweler. I then proceeded to use my main to craft the low-level accessory, planning to put it in my storage, let the alt take it out and equip it. But the item I crafted was soulbound to the jeweler character, who is way higher level and doesn’t need it.

Has anyone else experienced this with similar items? As far as we know, is it designed to work this way or could it be a bug? I have successfully made other items from recipes before, for example, the Moogooloo trident, and I was able to craft it on one character and hand it off to an alt. But this is the first time I’ve tried it with jewelry.

Any thoughts or input would be appreciated.

Are you sure it was soulbound to your character? I have purchased many recipes and am a level 400 jeweler. Some jewelery awards from missions are soulbound on acquire, but I have never crafted a piece, that was soulbound on acquire. Every single piece, has always been soulbound but only once you ‘put it on’. (Or did you try applying a gem to it after which could have made it soulbound? )

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deldrimor_Ring_Replica Is another recipe that does this. I remember creating a weapon from an Asura recipe with Artificer that was also like this. I don’t remember the name but the vendor is in Metrica.

Prophet, congratulations on making it to 400! I agree, it seemed really strange, and I had never seen anything do that. I can confirm that in the crafting window before making the item, the description says “soulbound on acquire.” As soon as I crafted it and it appeared in my inventory, it was labeled as “soulbound” before I even touched it. I definitely didn’t equip or upgrade it.

Thanks for your reply Khisanth. Glad to know I’m not the only one who’s run into this problem. That is weird that another vendor, also in a starter zone, had a recipe that worked in a similar way.

Since this seems to be the exception rather than the rule, I’m guessing it’s a bug and not intentional?

It’s unusual but it mostly makes sense to me. Bought with Karma means soulbound is something that is true for a large part of the game. The only thing I would want to see changed is for the recipe item to mention this fact.

Would also be nice if recipe items told you the stat of the created item and the ingredients required.