Guild Wars 2

I’m sure a lot of you are tired of hearing these requests and I’m also sure that this has probably been posted before but try to hear me out.

With all of the complaints and worries about the fairness off these weapons in WvW, plus the grind it takes to craft them (it may be possible to make them easily enough, but for most, it is a grind), I suggest that the crafted ascended weapons (and armour in future) be made soulbound on equip instead of account bound, the same as almost every other item in game.

If you think about it, there is almost no reason to have them account bound on creation:-

-It stops people from building items for friends and guildmates (preventing small guilds and people with little time from building these items)

-It prevents crafters from making any profit from these items and making people only actually build a small handful of them each. This makes crafting more of a “one time” thing, instead of something people will want to do for profit or fun.

-Almost the same as above, since people will want the ascended weapons, exotic weapons in the marketplace will not be bought, forcing people to lower their prices considerably and ruin the market.

-Whether people min/max or not, they want the best stats they can get, it’s natural for people to stab something in the face and think “Hmm, I want to stab it HARDER” forcing people to either craft, cutting into their usually killing time or live with a weapon that isn’t as good.

I’ve read many times that they cannot be sold because they’d ruin the market, I say that they’d just help it evolve a bit. The market wont be swarmed with these ascended weapons since they’ve already got certain materials time-gated, limiting the amount that can be crafted daily.

I’m sure someone will have counter arguments for this and possible hatred for what I’ve written, but I thought it important to voice my opinion.

Thanks for your time,

psi

p.s. TL;DR – Make ascended crafting tradable and sellable so that people aren’t forced into content and stop people from complaining about the unbalance of WvW due to the “rich/poor divide”

NTY

What many WvWders actually want is for them to increase the drop rate of ascended mats in WvW…or remove the once/day/area limit currently in game.

BTW, you are not the first person to voice this exact idea. I really wish they would fix the Search Function on these forums (at this point, a google search > forum search…).