Guild Wars 2

Um Can we plz have all ascended equipment account bound when used not soulbound and even better if it’s tradeable before used ^^

From what i know the dev is gonna make World Rank Acc bound which is good. The thing is my main char is ele and i got all my char to 80 for every job witch exotics equipment and full ascend for my main.

The problem is for the ascended weapon, armor and acc and neck which is harder to get, I don;t really mind for Exotics being soulbound and all because it’s easy to make and cheap but for ascended weapon / acc/ neck even if u have all the gold in gw2 u still need to wait for laurel for acc and neck, or 2 weeks guild mission, or 5 days daily crafting to get the weapon.

For most char trait build is always change every time according to balance patch and trend.which make the old ascended weapon / backs become less effective. I can’t salvage ascended eq to get anything or let my other char use it which is kinda a waste.

Saw a few posts about people begging for Legendary Weapons to be account bound as well. Which i think will be more convenient.

It is not just ascended weapons, the Ascended Trinkets should be account bound. I have 9 level 80 characters and outfitting them all with time gated Ascended accessories is going to take me decades. Currently however if I have a condition build on one toon and want to change the build to a power build any Ascended Trinkets he has for the condition build become useless. I could, if they were account bound, give the condition build trinkets to my necro or engie but I cannot.

If Laurels are time gated AND account bound why are the items you buy with those Laurels NOT account bound?

I’m not sure about weapons because of gold-sink problem, but trinkets must be account bound. Because trinkets aren’t gold sinks, they are just time gated items. I can’t see any reason for them to be soulbound. That would help us play with different alts and different builds easier.

Umut.5471:

I can’t see any reason for them to be soulbound. That would help us play with different alts and different builds easier.

If you want it that easy: Why not give everyone 200 laurels and ascended gear when he creates a character? This would make it even easier to play different builds.

Sorry, but sometimes it feels like people only want to play farmarama with better graphics, means: not to do anything at all to get their stuff.

Legendarys should be an achievement you have to work hard for – ingame to get or buy them or if some want, in RL to earn enough money to get them. Ascended are just Legendarys for the poor, so making them tradeable makes no sense at all – then you’d remove the big disadvantage they have for being very cheap and easier to get compared to getting/making a legendary.

And yes (like said before), it would remove a big gold sink too, that would result in a stronger inflation of the ingame gold.

illo.5106:

Umut.5471:

I can’t see any reason for them to be soulbound. That would help us play with different alts and different builds easier.

If you want it that easy: Why not give everyone 200 laurels and ascended gear when he creates a character? This would make it even easier to play different builds.

Ascended are just Legendarys for the poor, so making them tradeable makes no sense at all – then you’d remove the big disadvantage they have for being very cheap and easier to get compared to getting/making a legendary.

I think the OP was more aimed at leaving them account-bound(the trade-able was just an add-on).
The biggest reason that legendarys are what they are, is that they have on the fly changeable stats. you still have to grind for either of them, but storing one item is going to be easier than storing one for each permutation of the same item type for each of the selectable stat variations.

Sure, you could leave legendary as a soul-bound, but in the end, it wouldn’t change the overall achievement of getting one, they are still “end game weapons”. It would just make them alt friendly, which currently, is what A-net is doing across the board.
(see WvW exp, fractles, Gem store mining tools)

I think though, Soul-bound is more of an annoyance than anything.
You cant even infuse a ring on the character that you don’t plan on wearing it on.

Account-bound is just a “better” system, as it makes an armor set/weapon/accessory worth more.

If anything it would raise prices though, as one piece of armor is now sharable across all your alts, you’d only need to buy one of each stat permutation.

Orthas.4937:

If anything it would raise prices though, as one piece of armor is now sharable across all your alts, you’d only need to buy one of each stat permutation.

Why? If I already have Eternity for my warrior and can use it now with my ranger and mesmer too – why should this raise the price? Indeed, many who plan to buy/forge a second one, can now simply use their old one, so the demand will go down.

Players with a legendary are often those 24/7 players or those, who pump a lot of “real life gold” into the game. Casual players, that are often very happy to have 300 or 400 G, still won’t buy this stuff after making it account bound. Those get the much cheaper ascended stuff.

Ascended are difficult to get for a reason and they should stay bound.
However the crafting components for them should NOT be bound.

^^ +1 – I would like them to be acct bound too. (I wish ascended boxes wouldn’t drop maybe an acct bound vision crystal or inscription in its place instead)

raseloc.6932:

Ascended are difficult to get for a reason and they should stay bound.
However the crafting components for them should NOT be bound.

All depends if you are talking about Ascended weapons or Ascended trinkets. The trinkets are dependent on Laurels which are time gated AND per account. That is you cannot earn any more Laurels per day whether you have 1 character or 10. Making the trinkets soulbound on use rather then leaving them account bound makes little sense when you consider how they are earned.

illo.5106:

Why? If I already have Eternity for my warrior and can use it now with my ranger and mesmer too – why should this raise the price? Indeed, many who plan to buy/forge a second one, can now simply use their old one, so the demand will go down.

Look at it like this:

If you don’t have one, and you want to get one, currently, you’d look at it like this “it costs that much to have it on one character”

If it was account bound it would be like this “it costs that much to have it on all my characters”

People have been willing to spend as much as it is, to buy it for one character, OF COURSE the guys who are selling them will raise the price if it becomes account bound, they would become so much more appealing if they could be used on alts as well without having to buy another one.
you wouldn’t have to look at getting another eternity, you would be looking at getting a different legendary for either a different setup or a different class.

Theftwind.8976:

raseloc.6932:

Ascended are difficult to get for a reason and they should stay bound.
However the crafting components for them should NOT be bound.

All depends if you are talking about Ascended weapons or Ascended trinkets. The trinkets are dependent on Laurels which are time gated AND per account. That is you cannot earn any more Laurels per day whether you have 1 character or 10. Making the trinkets soulbound on use rather then leaving them account bound makes little sense when you consider how they are earned.

I am talking about crafted Ascended items only.
Several guild members have tons of dust/fragments, but don’t craft at all. They would like to sell them, and I would like to buy them!
So the base components can be unbound, but once you combine them with something they become account bound.

Orthas.4937:

People have been willing to spend as much as it is, to buy it for one character, OF COURSE the guys who are selling them will raise the price if it becomes account bound, they would become so much more appealing if they could be used on alts as well without having to buy another one.

Usually sellers start to underbid each other if they don’t sell their stuff quick enough – example: skins from LS, that usually get cheaper after the first hype, mats for ascended, so on.

So the price will go on in the long run.

illo.5106:

Orthas.4937:

People have been willing to spend as much as it is, to buy it for one character, OF COURSE the guys who are selling them will raise the price if it becomes account bound, they would become so much more appealing if they could be used on alts as well without having to buy another one.

Usually sellers start to underbid each other if they don’t sell their stuff quick enough – example: skins from LS, that usually get cheaper after the first hype, mats for ascended, so on.

So the price will go on in the long run.

The current price of the dwayna back piece, is about 2g, on release it was 60silver.
guess what going to rise due to drop rate/=/equivalent gift price