Guild Wars 2

They mentioned that some special MF items won’t get account bound after the MF changes, and I’d like to know if that includes the Arachnophobia (and The Crossing). Perhaps someone could just clearly outline what will not get account bound?

/edit Text in question from blog post:
“The only exceptions to this rule are in some high-end weapons that will still get the ability to select their stats, but will remain tradable.”

The stats have been removed (they still do exotic level damage and have a sigil of night) and they are not account bound.

You can put it on the TP or select the stats and soulbind it. Also, they disabled the MF recipes for these.

OMG you are right…

i have 2 of thease one equipt one very log term storeage and i dunno if it beocmes bound i might use it on an alt other wise its a sell with nice stats

So, I was thinking, all Legendary weapons have PVT stats, right? So the only thing the comment could refer to are harder to acquire Exotics. Arachnophobia seems to be in that category.

Perhaps the Halloween recipes will make a stat-selectable item that can be placed on the TP, and the existing ones will be tradable before selecting their stats? I hope this is it.

Niodyne.7085:

So, I was thinking, all Legendary weapons have PVT stats, right? So the only thing the comment could refer to are harder to acquire Exotics. Arachnophobia seems to be in that category.

Perhaps the Halloween recipes will make a stat-selectable item that can be placed on the TP, and the existing ones will be trade-able before selecting their stats? I hope this is it.

“Since all weapons, armor, and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, any of these items currently on the Trading Post will be return to the poster. "

This is an excellent question. I would believe that because neither can be crafted with a different stat combination (unlike Pearl weapons for example), the two will be automatically converted to the new Dire stat combination (CD/T/V).

I guess I should have put what I was referring to in the original post, updated it with the quote in question.

@Viral That could work too. I guess I’m feeling a little better with keeping mine (still not sure if I want to use it or sell it).

From the blog post:

“For example, if you have an Explorer’s Pearl Staff, you can now double-click it to change it to any other crafting stat. Since all weapons, armor, and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, any of these items currently on the Trading Post will be return to the poster. The only exceptions to this rule are in some high-end weapons that will still get the ability to select their stats, but will remain tradable.”

No confirmations on which, but I’d imagine this is in reference to unique Mystic Forge skins such as Arachnophobia, and maybe some of the rarer dropped skins.

If it’s tradeable I feel good about this…but I’m still keeping it… my favourite bow in the entire game!

Crafting disabled on these 3 items… that’s a pitty. I was working on crafting both The Crossing and Arachnaphobia. Mind you, I still had a ways to go and they said they’d come back at Halloween, so I suppose its not TOO big a deal.