Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Can i pick stats and use my spinal blade and still upgrade it afterwards?
Cause in the warning section it says it will be permanent. This probably only
goes about the stats but wanted to be sure.

greets jens

The stat selection is permanent for that item.

If you toss it into the Mystic Forge (and upgrade it to a NEW item), then you get to choose the stats on the upgraded version.

Word of warning: Currently the Ascended one seems to lack certain stat combos present on the Exotic backpiece.

If you pick a stat combo and equip it, does that soulbind it?
If you then upgrade it, does it become account bound again, or still soulbound?

It becomes account bound upon selecting stats and stays account bound even after upgrading it then. Each upgrade allows selecting stats again for the appropriate level/quality you upgrade it to. It also stays account bound after applying an upgrade component to the back item.

I’ve not made the ascended (only up to exotic), but dulfy shows that it stays account bound even after upgrading it to ascended and selecting stats. I haven’t looked on dulfy to see if infusing does anything to account bound status. We also do not yet know if account bound status remains after the next upgrade to alter the color of the ascended back item. Can’t upgrade it yet as it needs crystal things from today’s update to upgrade it.

StinVec.3621:

It becomes account bound upon selecting stats and stays account bound even after upgrading it then. Each upgrade allows selecting stats again for the appropriate level/quality you upgrade it to. It also stays account bound after applying an upgrade component to the back item.

I’ve not made the ascended (only up to exotic), but dulfy shows that it stays account bound even after upgrading it to ascended and selecting stats. I haven’t looked on dulfy to see if infusing does anything to account bound status. We also do not yet know if account bound status remains after the next upgrade to alter the color of the ascended back item. Can’t upgrade it yet as it needs crystal things from today’s update to upgrade it.

Selecting stats on the ascended version will make it soulbound.

Ah, thanks Khisanth.

Ignore all of what I documented above. They’re now all likely to be soulbound now upon selecting stats or even after upgrading to the next tier as with today’s patch they made all of the account bound spinal blades that were equipped or had upgrade components applied to them soulbound…I’m pretty peeved that they made this change without mentioning it.

Non-stat selected spinal blades are now:

• Account Bound
• Soulbound on Use
  Instead of just Account Bound.

Freakin’ Anet…I swear.

StinVec.3621:

Ah, thanks Khisanth.

Also, with today’s patch they made all of the account bound spinal blades that were equipped or had upgrade components applied to them soulbound…I’m pretty peeved that they made this change without mentioning it.

Ignore all of what I documented above. They’re all likely to be soulbound now upon selecting stats or even after upgrading to the next tier.

Freakin’ Anet…I swear.

Seriously? I really hope thats an error. Put another nail in coffin if this is true. Why do they keep going backwords…

Yeah…it’s true…

StinVec.3621:

Ah, thanks Khisanth.

Ignore all of what I documented above. They’re now all likely to be soulbound now upon selecting stats or even after upgrading to the next tier as with today’s patch they made all of the account bound spinal blades that were equipped or had upgrade components applied to them soulbound…I’m pretty peeved that they made this change without mentioning it.

Non-stat selected spinal blades are now:

• Account Bound
• Soulbound on Use
  Instead of just Account Bound.

Freakin’ Anet…I swear.

What do you mean? It was always soul bound from the beginning if you had equipped it on any version.

Cush.4063:

StinVec.3621:

Ah, thanks Khisanth.

Ignore all of what I documented above. They’re now all likely to be soulbound now upon selecting stats or even after upgrading to the next tier as with today’s patch they made all of the account bound spinal blades that were equipped or had upgrade components applied to them soulbound…I’m pretty peeved that they made this change without mentioning it.

Non-stat selected spinal blades are now:

• Account Bound
• Soulbound on Use
  Instead of just Account Bound.

Freakin’ Anet…I swear.

What do you mean? It was always soul bound from the beginning if you had equipped it on any version.

Actually it was not. The items stayed Account Bound even after selecting stats, equipping it, adding an upgrade component, upgrading it to the next version (up to exotic). It stayed Account Bound.

StinVec.3621:

Cush.4063:

StinVec.3621:

Ah, thanks Khisanth.

Ignore all of what I documented above. They’re now all likely to be soulbound now upon selecting stats or even after upgrading to the next tier as with today’s patch they made all of the account bound spinal blades that were equipped or had upgrade components applied to them soulbound…I’m pretty peeved that they made this change without mentioning it.

Non-stat selected spinal blades are now:

• Account Bound
• Soulbound on Use
  Instead of just Account Bound.

Freakin’ Anet…I swear.

What do you mean? It was always soul bound from the beginning if you had equipped it on any version.

Actually it was not. The items stayed Account Bound even after selecting stats, equipping it, adding an upgrade component, upgrading it to the next version (up to exotic). It stayed Account Bound.

I really hope they listen and put it back to the way it was. I’m getting really tired of all these one time use skins only for it to become soulbound to only one of my toons. God this kittens me off. (And we can’t do a petition, cause I think they usually get locked, don’t they?)

What about infusions? Can you infuse this back pice without losing its color?