Guild Wars 2

Exuse me, if there already is shuch a Thread, i couldn’t find it… The suggestion can be seen obviously in the topic title

I dont get the use of soulbound, OK, stuff like cultural armor may needs it, but what else? Wouldn’t the bad stuff you use with your lower Level be soulbound, you could use it again, if one of your other Charakters reach this level again, what would be bad about this? If you give with lvl 80 your max gear to your other charakter, you still need a new set for your actual charakter, or do you want us to throw an old set away, cause we shall have the same pain to get max gear with each charakter again?

For example, my main (mesmer) has a armor she really loves, but get herself a new one she loves even more. Still the first armor was a lot of work to get and i absolutly don’t want to throw it away… Than my Ele reaches finally lvl 80 (actually only 30). Now i want also max gear with her and i would love to take the first one of my mesmer, but instead of this, i have to go through the same pain like with my mesmer again while the first set of my mesmer lies unused in my inventory… This also would solve this Problem: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bypassing-Soulbound-lock-for-looks/first#post833548

Next example, i have all my charakters at 80 and love to play with all of them (i am far away from this situation)^^. If equipment wouldnt be soulbound, i could switch one max gear item from each equipmenttype (two swords for all, one light chestpiece for all light armor users) from one charakter to another. Instead of this i have to get each useable equipmentype for all of my charakters once… That takes a lot of place and needs much time… I mean, of course, it is not too hard to get complete max gear with one charakter, but for one is already really annoying, especially for professions with many weapons… To get max gear for each profession (or at least for 5 Charakters) does need far more time, makes far less fun and is nothing else than punishment for many players (like me)…

Last example: Equipment with different stats… Yeah, although i said myself, that it would be really useful to be able to use the same equipment with different charakters, i may want different stats for each Charakter… Especially different sets for different playstyles… But here would be accountbound even more useful than in my other example, even for only 2 Charakters. If i want an offensive GS, an defensive GS and a precision-based GS, i need 3 GSs… And that for any Profession, that can use a GS…

I actually have no fun while aiming for max gear. I mostly would prefer 3 or 4 complete equipment sets for each of my charakters, but after it is so much work, i reduced it to only a second armor… It may would be a bit annoying to switch equipment between charakters, but to get complete equipment with any charakter is even more annoying.

I want to have some day one lvl 80 of each profession and GW2 is may great, bit already reaching level 80 isnt so much fun after reaching it once… (But that is not the topic here)
I also want to play different roles with each of my professions, but to get also the different equipment (different stats) is far too much work on one Charakter alone... (If i only need the different stat-sets once accountwide, i can get them while playing my different charakters. This will still need some work, but 3 GSs for all is rather worth the work than 3 GSs for one…)
I also want to play with max gear with any of my charakters, but to get a complete set for any of my charakters… Already one complete set for my main takes far more time and work than i want and i dont think that i can complete even this one before a better, ascended version is introduced…

… Stuff being soulbound is soulbound exactly so that you can’t just farm it once and swap it to the rest of your characters.

The only currently soulbound item that most people would even consider for a discussion of being accountbound instead would be Legendaries.

Olba.5376:

… Stuff being soulbound is soulbound exactly so that you can’t just farm it once and swap it to the rest of your characters.

I’m sorry, I just can’t see what would be wrong with that…
It’s not like asking to give you stuff without any effort. If you already did everything you were required to obtain it, you should be able to do whatever you want with it.

@Olba: I can already farm for my other charakters, Dungeonmarks, Gold, WvW-Marks, Mats, … OK, Karma cant, but everything else can.

And yeah, this suggestion of mine is a bit created by my way to play… I prefer to run around with maxgear and a skin i like. It is nice to have some harder-to-gain-goal like legendaries, but i mostly want to play with my wished gear, not for my wished gear^^.

I cant stand, if my charakter looks ugly and i would never use a higher amount of gold or something else for something that is maybe good-looking, but only nearly max gear. Also it doesnt hurt me to run around without max gear, but i prefer max gear^^.

I also had much situations in games (especially in GW1), where i got my prestige but had no fun with it, because it may look a bit better than my previous armor, but i hadnt anywhere left to play with this armor…

Olba.5376:

… Stuff being soulbound is soulbound exactly so that you can’t just farm it once and swap it to the rest of your characters.

The only currently soulbound item that most people would even consider for a discussion of being accountbound instead would be Legendaries.

What’s wrong in moving “Siege Weapon Plans” to another alt?

Or at least let your other chars transmute a soulbound armor piece.

Delsabre.5934:

What’s wrong in moving “Siege Weapon Plans” to another alt?

I said most. And that would be one of the exceptions.

Or at least let your other chars transmute a soulbound armor piece.

Transmutation Stones are Account Bound?

And can you even get a piece of armor in the game that is Soulbound without equipping it first?

Skins I don’t mind much, but the gear itself should be Soulbound. This is because otherwise plenty of casual people are just going to get a single set of Heavy, Medium and Light armor and pass those from character to the next. And considering how easy it is to get a decent set of Exotic armor, I see no reason to make it any easier. Heck, just by doing Daily Achievements, you can get a full 6 piece set of Exotic armor from the Temples in 38 days. Add in Monthly Achievement and that’s down to 28 days. Add in another Monthly Achievement and it’s 18 days. Less than 3 weeks for a full set of endgame gear.

Olba.5376:

Delsabre.5934:

What’s wrong in moving “Siege Weapon Plans” to another alt?

I said most. And that would be one of the exceptions.

Or at least let your other chars transmute a soulbound armor piece.

Transmutation Stones are Account Bound?

And can you even get a piece of armor in the game that is Soulbound without equipping it first?

Skins I don’t mind much, but the gear itself should be Soulbound. This is because otherwise plenty of casual people are just going to get a single set of Heavy, Medium and Light armor and pass those from character to the next. And considering how easy it is to get a decent set of Exotic armor, I see no reason to make it any easier. Heck, just by doing Daily Achievements, you can get a full 6 piece set of Exotic armor from the Temples in 38 days. Add in Monthly Achievement and that’s down to 28 days. Add in another Monthly Achievement and it’s 18 days. Less than 3 weeks for a full set of endgame gear.

2 monthly achievements in less that 3 weeks?
are you a timelord?

gwaimui.3819:

2 monthly achievements in less that 3 weeks?
are you a timelord?

Not something that I’ve personally achieved, but it should be possible.

But even without that, 28 days for a full set of endgame gear isn’t even a big deal. I know games where you would have to work multiple times that to get the gear. And then even longer to get the shards and refinements.

Even if it took 1 day, why must I work again to get something that I already did???