Guild Wars 2

Figure I’d let someone know before they get the same unfortunately incident as me.

CHANGING THE STATS WILL AUTOMATICALLY SOULBIND

Yes, so unless you want that item specifically on that character, do not change the stats on them. Regardless of profession it will soulbind it.
It does say so on the prompt screen when selecting stats, but I figure I’d let people know as its rather easily overlooked.
Personally it shouldn’t have been so, but ah well.
Just don’t waste any precious exotics on changing stats until its on a char you want it to be.

Good to know, I shall +1 that for getting the word out.

Did you change the stat WHILE it was equipped on that Character? Otherwise it’s only supposed to Account Bound the item. If it’s not becoming Account Bound, then it’s a bug and should be reported.

See, if the item is actually on your character and you change stats.. well it will Account Bound it and then instantly Soul Bind it as well since it’s equipped. Does that make sense?

Again, if that’s not the case, then it’s a bug. The patch notes clearly say that the items should become account bound.

Yes, I thought they said they would become account bound?

I changed the stats of a MF coat I kept in my inventory just to look at the new system. It wasn’t equipped, and it wasn’t a ‘Soulbound on aquire’ item. It became soulbound. Not sure if that’s intended?

This happened to me as well. It’s a good thing I found out on a green before I got to my exotics. I assumed it was account bound until equipped.

Delvoire.8930:

Did you change the stat WHILE it was equipped on that Character? Otherwise it’s only supposed to Account Bound the item. If it’s not becoming Account Bound, then it’s a bug and should be reported.

See, if the item is actually on your character and you change stats.. well it will Account Bound it and then instantly Soul Bind it as well since it’s equipped. Does that make sense?

Again, if that’s not the case, then it’s a bug. The patch notes clearly say that the items should become account bound.

That’s not how it currently works. The item wasn’t equipped at all. I’ll use the very example that I had happen that made me make this known for this very reason.

On my main, which is Warrior, I decided to take the exotic LIGHT set of gloves and change their stats. Seeing as how I have an Ele that’s low level, I figured I’d change the stats in advance for them.
I changed the stats to Cleric’s for instance. Now those LIGHT gloves are now SOULBOUND to my Warrior.
Now do you see the problem? It notes such upon changing the stats, but I dismissed it simply as a ‘you cannot change it after set’ warning. Not a soulbind warning. Which was my mistake, but wanted to make sure it wasn’t repeated.

So I ended up having to salvage it since I couldn’t even give it to my Ele no more.

The Dev statement indicated the items would become ACCOUNT bound when the MF was removed and stat changes were needed. There was NO mention of what became of the items once you selected the stats you wanted. Obviously, they become SOULBOUND and in fact, a dialog warns you of this fact before you complete the selection process.

This is NOT a bug but working as intended as far as I can see.

Brother Grimm.5176:

This is NOT a bug but working as intended as far as I can see.

Never said it was a bug, but the fact that it was roughly omitted unless one paid attention, is what I’m mostly putting up. I was under the impression it would have remained accountbound/soulbind on use. As I was not lead to believe otherwise until I made my mistake.

Intended, yes. But there was still a bit of lack of communication.

All the blogs/chats/etc mentioned them becoming soulbound upon stat selection – if it didn’t in the notes that’s a dropped ball.

And this really should be in Gen. Discussion.