Guild Wars 2

After recently acquiring a legendary weapon, I’ve become very interested in using it on my alts. I have two suggestions.

1. Add an “unbinder” item to the gemstore that turns “soulbound” items back into “soulbound on equip”.

or

2. Make legendary weapons account bound.

Curtis.1562:

After recently acquiring a legendary weapon, I’ve become very interested in using it on my alts. I have two suggestions.

1. Add an “unbinder” item to the gemstore that turns “soulbound” items back into “soulbound on equip”.

2. Make legendary weapons account bound.

1. No, I don’t think so. If it was too cheap, it would result in people recycling all of their armors through different characters. If it was a bit more expensive, then people wouldn’t use it at all, unless the item in question was much more expensive to re-acquire.

2. This I can understand, considering that most people would only ever get a single legendary.

Olba.5376:

people recycling all of their armors through different characters.

and what exactly would make it a problem and not a solution?

Olba.5376:

Curtis.1562:

After recently acquiring a legendary weapon, I’ve become very interested in using it on my alts. I have two suggestions.

1. Add an “unbinder” item to the gemstore that turns “soulbound” items back into “soulbound on equip”.

2. Make legendary weapons account bound.

1. No, I don’t think so. If it was too cheap, it would result in people recycling all of their armors through different characters. If it was a bit more expensive, then people wouldn’t use it at all, unless the item in question was much more expensive to re-acquire.

The fact it’d be a gem store item means it wouldn’t be cheap.

I like the idea

Hermes.7014:

The fact it’d be a gem store item means it wouldn’t be cheap.

That’s a subjective opinion. For people who regularly spend RL money on Gemstore, it might not be expensive.

Heck, take a look at the Makeover items. A lot of people were thinking they would cost a minimum of 500 Gems.

And let me point out that there are Exotics, not Legendaries, not even Precursors, which cost so much that you would have to make the unbinding item cost several thousand Gems before it would be an “expensive” move, if we’re talking using the same weapon on multiple characters. For example, all Corrupted exotics.

and what exactly would make it a problem and not a solution?

Why have soulbinding at all if it essentially does nothing?

Unbinding a piece of equipment should be a Mystic Forge recipe that costs at least half the materials required to craft it (rounded up) plus Mystic Stone or something.
Essentially, it’d be like re-crafting it with a discount.
It should not be Gem or Gold-based.

Olba.5376:

Why have soulbinding at all if it essentially does nothing?

well, it transforms the “fear” about" bind on equip" from “if i equip this I wont be able to sell it” to “if i equip this it will cost me some cash to be able to sell it”

Honestly , i think the idea goes too far.

What i think Anet should equip is something that turned items from soul bind into account bound.

This would solve a lot of problems in one go.

Nox Aeterna.2965:

Honestly , i think the idea goes too far.

What i think Anet should equip is something that turned items from soul bind into account bound.

This would solve a lot of problems in one go.

I was JUST about to make this its own thread. This would hurt absolutely NOTHING that I can foresee, while granting many of us a good reason to continue leveling alts, etc.