Guild Wars 2

I wish that you convert agony resistance from character wide to account wide as you did in currency.

This change will be very helpful for players that have many alts and want to play it with different one each time. The reason is that Ascended gear is expensive specially when you want to have it on many of your alts.

Any opinions ?

Great idea man, i totally agree.

While we are at it, can we make Power account bound as well? i mean all my characters are in full zerg gear, so I think this would be very beneficial too all my characters.

This suggestion gave me so many giggles for far too long from the first post.

(Account bound AR – given the way infusions work).
I can see many upset players who use fine infusions on have spent time buying rings with laurels on multiple alts would not be laughing.

These things are created as gold sinks – it’s the same reason why you need to buy N armor sets (one per character!) and N weapons per character. The other alternative is the ’soul bound → account bound transmutation stones (via gems) → soul bound when Re-equipped on a new char)

In short “Nope” – I cannot see this happening.

Thinking about it, having power account bound is not as bad as people may think. This eliminates the need to buy ascended amulets, rings, and accessories, a. It would allow the power attribute to be removed from armor and give it something more useful, like improving skill casting time. Also the attributes we currently obtain from all the gear and weapons should be account bound. Who has time to get tokens and or gold to buy Zerg armor for all 8 level 80 characters? Think about it, when ascended armor comes out, we won’t need to get it for all characters. Only one, and have the stats shared to all of our characters.

BalkanLion.6045:

Thinking about it, having power account bound is not as bad as people may think. This eliminates the need to buy ascended amulets, rings, and accessories, a. It would allow the power attribute to be removed from armor and give it something more useful, like improving skill casting time. Also the attributes we currently obtain from all the gear and weapons should be account bound. Who has time to get tokens and or gold to buy Zerg armor for all 8 level 80 characters? Think about it, when ascended armor comes out, we won’t need to get it for all characters. Only one, and have the stats shared to all of our characters.

+1

Would bang.

Can you imagine the request for refunds from guild laurels or ectos (spent on each char) for ascended and infused times?
<What a nightmare it would be for ANET!>

This is almost as kittenaying -
*I want to buy one armor set and use it on all characters at the same time without any penalty or fees.
*I want to buy one amulet and use it across all chars simultaneously.

What about characters without “infused” Backpieces do they automatically get AR that characters with infused Backpieces have.

I am still laughing (lots) at this suggestion.

You don’t get it , do you ?
I disagree for a power/any stat account wide as all armor gear is cheap even exotic.
The problem comes with Ascended ones as they are too expensive specially for me ( got 6 80es ).
I just want Anet to change them from soul bound to account bound.

The problem comes with Ascended ones as they are too expensive specially for me ( got 6 80es ).
I just want Anet to change them from soul bound to account bound.

→ Here are just a few problems with this:
Armour type: Medium, Light, Heavy – how to do conversion? (They are made using different crafting disciplines)
Prestige: Ascended armor and weapons are considered “elite” and should be hard to get.
A single person who has multiple characters would make it look like everyone has it.
The same is true for legendary items and ascended weapons.

Cost: This is subjective – some people find exotic armor too expensive (Seen the prices recently? They have shot up it can easily cost 30g now for a full set). Some people find ‘rare armor expensive’. These things are not designed so you can have it on every character from day 1. It currently takes less than two weeks to craft/find all the mats to make one ascended weapon – even less time if you are lucky (about a month or so for chars with multiple ascended weapons).

Crafting: This is only one route to getting ascended stuff – it also drops in the open world with a reasonable drop ratio (better than precursors !).

Drops: Ascended weapons have been dropping in FoTM and world bosses – the values of these will become lower if a player only needs one and can use across multiple characters. New dungeons paths have been dropping ascended weapons.
I have been lucky and received one from FoTM (box allowing me to choose any ascended weapon with celestial stats).

Market: It would crash the current crafting market for ascended items (inscriptions etc) and affect a large player base of crafters. These people will feel betrayed and very hurt if the time-gated market crashs and their effort is now worthless. ANET promised that the time gating would help stabilise a market so people have a reason to craft to lvl 500.

There is nothing forcing you to have ascended items on all your toons.
I am afraid that I do understand this all too we’ll – the side effects and complaints will be massive in the player base.

The first post was that “AR should be account wide” this is now “ascended items should be account bound so I can use across all toons and not be soul bound”.