Guild Wars 2

I just spent 35 Laurels buying a second Ascended ring only to find that I can’t use it, and given I bought it to replace a different Ascended ring which didn’t have the right stats, I’m now left with a soulbound ring I don’t want and another ring that I can’t use.

Trying to equip my Ascended ring was my first encounter with the fact that GW2 contains this mechanism. Even though it’s written on the first ring I got, it wasn’t something I was looking for as no other weapon works in this manner. As a result I didn’t realise until trying to equip the second one.

My suggestion would be to inform the player upon purchasing an Ascended Item that once souldbound they will not be able to use another of that specific kind.

Furthermore, the souldbound Ascended Gear you are carrying should be greyed out in the Purchase Menu to indicate that you already own one and perhaps even go as far as to prevent you from purchasing another one. Seeing as the currency required to buy ascended gear is Account wide this wouldn’t cause any problems.

Another option would be to implement an Ascended Gear swapper – who takes the extra ascended gear you don’t want and swaps it with gear you do want. That way you don’t end up tossing Ascended gear because it has no use to you and you can’t trade it. He’d also be able to swap those accidental purchases you might make if the first suggestion isn’t implementable. Naturally he would only be able to swap gear that wasn’t soulbound.

This sucks, but items are clearly marked as "unique. This is also why each ascended ring, earring, and amulet have multiple items with the same stats.

The vendor also has you confirm your purchase “Are you sure you want to purchase X?”

Right, the mutliples appear to be so that you can pick between Defensive and Offensive infusion slots as opposed to you having to buy different rings. That would be clearest if they were absolutely identical as opposed to having the difference in Utility slot.

The “Are you sure…” happens whenever you trade for Laurels, Dungeon Tokens and karma so that didn’t strike me as unusual in this situation, I expected that to happen so it doesn’t help warn you about it being unique.

The marking as Unique was just so unexpected that putting it next to all the notices about Soulbound and Account bound etc means it’s easily ignored.

It seems the only reason most people found out about “Unique” is because someone screwed up like me (this happened in my guild). I just didn’t happen to be around when it happened and there is no other way that it is broadcast to the player in a clear way, which is why I ended up repeating their mistake.

Further clarification wouldn’t hurt. I didn’t even know we couldn’t have duplicates until recently. Good thing I held off. I’m on the fence about a ring swapper though. Maybe have a cool-down period between each swap or a limit to how many times one can swap to prevent people from abusing the feature?

I figure making the swapped accessory souldbound and only allowing non-soulbound items to be swapped would limit its use to those who get trash drop or screw up.

This again?! Wonder how long it will take before we get confirmation on confirmation dialogs…