Guild Wars 2

Simple. Add an item that costs either gem or gold that allows the owner to trade the item once. Doesn’t work on legendary items or legendary components, or account bound items.

I understand that soulbound items are a gold sink, but some of us really want to sell something that we either equipped and regretted, or accidentally equipped it. Price it at a moderate-high price so that it cannot be used to unsoulbound every items to make soulbound meaningless.

There are two good reasons why an item becomes soulbound:

1 – To get it out of the economy. If these items weren’t soulbound, their price would crash over time as the economy is flooded with them as they are never destroyed. So they would all become vendor trash. The more expensive an item is, the more important the soulbinding is to maintain its value.

2 – Because the Trading Post can’t handle modified items easily. ANET had to chose between not allowing people to trade modified items, or have a trading post for every single possible combination of item stats + upgrade + skin. Including all the stupid ones.

3 – So that the only people to get the skin are people who have done specific content.

So allowing people to remove soulbinding in those cases will be bad. As for the other cases of items being bound, those should all be removed without needing us to spend gems.

Holy thread necromancy!

Was just thinking bout this and did a search b4 posting. It would be something I would buy from the cash shop for sure. That way I could fill my legendary medal then sell the weapon b/c all I really want it that blank spot on my login screen filled.