Guild Wars 2

So as a player who has multiple lvl 80’s, I own 1 of each of the endless harvesting items that have come out, and I was thinking making them account bound vs soulbound would be so much more preferable for players like myself who rotate between characters often. Just a quality of life suggestion.

That’s precisely why they’ll never be account bound. It would render the normal tools completely obsolete, and they’re essentially a gold sink.

Yes, I agree that if you want to use a harvesting too on multiple characters, you should buy multiple tools.
But the soulbound state of the harvesting tools creates other issues.

However, there is a chance that new harvesting tools with new animations are released. Now let’s say (hypothetically) that they release a “chainsaw” unlimited logging axe that I would like for my engi (main), it would mean that I will lose the lightning logging axe that I’ve already purchased and used on my main. In that case, I would be happiest if a new tool came with a single, one-time “unbind” ticket for harvesting tools, so I would be able to move my former harvesting tool down to one of my alts instead of overwriting and deleting it. i.e.: if I pay for two harvesting tools, let me use two harvesting tools.

This would possibly be beneficial to ANet as well as some players would invest in the new animation harvesting tool that otherwise would simply keep their old one.

Setun.4368:

So as a player who has multiple lvl 80’s, I own 1 of each of the endless harvesting items that have come out, and I was thinking making them account bound vs soulbound would be so much more preferable for players like myself who rotate between characters often. Just a quality of life suggestion.

Your idea is a good idea.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Yes, I agree that if you want to use a harvesting too on multiple characters, you should buy multiple tools.
But the soulbound state of the harvesting tools creates other issues.

However, there is a chance that new harvesting tools with new animations are released. Now let’s say (hypothetically) that they release a “chainsaw” unlimited logging axe that I would like for my engi (main), it would mean that I will lose the lightning logging axe that I’ve already purchased and used on my main. In that case, I would be happiest if a new tool came with a single, one-time “unbind” ticket for harvesting tools, so I would be able to move my former harvesting tool down to one of my alts instead of overwriting and deleting it. i.e.: if I pay for two harvesting tools, let me use two harvesting tools.

This would possibly be beneficial to ANet as well as some players would invest in the new animation harvesting tool that otherwise would simply keep their old one.

I would be in favor of this as a means of getting my endless harvesting tools moved around to a character I’m using more often for a week, month, etc if they’re not made just regular account bound.

I suppose these “unbind tickets” could also be sold separately…

Pretty sure they plan to release new infinite harvesting tools with new graphical effects periodically so players can get more. They would lose out on a lot of gem sales if you only had to buy one tool for your entire account.