Guild Wars 2

Making weapons soulbound on use doesn’t seem to make sense. The GW1 system of making weapons fully transferable even after using them was really nice, but that you got a bonus if you took the weapon out of the economy.

At least making the weapon account bound instead of soulbound makes more sense. If I started a greatsword ranger, bought/crafted an expensive greatsword, then found a weapon I liked better while starting another class (like Warrior) where greatsword fits better, I could just trade it to myself instead of that money being wasted.

Thoughts? Comments?

Most weapons aren’t soulbound on acquire. Only Karma bought weapons are, and they’re not slavageable, nor vendorable. They’re also available to any character as long as they have the heart done.

Pro-tip: If you use a transmutation stone on a soulbound item and an item that isn’t soulbound it becomes account bound.

My apologies, I meant soulbound on use. Edited.

Weapons are not all soulbound on use, this is false.
Blue weps can be used then resold as long as you do not make em soulbound by adding a sigil or gem to the open slot (really ain’t much point at lower levels as you can lvl fast).
Green items are soulbound due to the, having better stats than the blue items at the same level.
However, karma items from hearts cannot be resold or salvaged as this would be exploited and game breaking.
So just to recap. You can resell blue items as long as they didn’t come from a karma vendor or you adding something to the slot.