Guild Wars 2

Soulbound seems like a waste. I bet you would get more people to but it too Anet.

/sign

i see no point in them being soulbound instead of accountbound and i strongly believe you would do a ton of people a giant favor if they get accountbound instead.

And yet they would earn less from it most likely.

I for one have personally bought two of them already, and have heard of people buying one for each of their alts.

That’s great for the people willing to spend $10 per character but it seems a bit ridiculous in this instance. They allow for so many of their other equipables to be account-wide, something of this nature ought to follow in the same suit.

Or just make it an account upgrade instead of an item.
“Characters will no longer require a pick to mine ore.”

Its should be account bound. I made a mistake by buying it to fast, didnt notice it was soulbound on use.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Or just make it an account upgrade instead of an item.
“Characters will no longer require a pick to mine ore.”

This…..

I do not see me spending 10 bucks on a single toon if it was account wide upgrade I would spend 15 bucks.

They should have made it a complete gathering set too, but we knows how they likes to makes them monies!

In my humble opinion it should have been a full set (pick+axe+sickle). Then it might have been worth the $10/20gold.

I agree however that it should have been Account Bound at the very least.

I wouldn’t object to it becoming account bound as a player, but I very much doubt ANet will do so, not when they can earn so much more profit by keeping it soulbound.

Zaxares.5419:

I wouldn’t object to it becoming account bound as a player, but I very much doubt ANet will do so, not when they can earn so much more profit by keeping it soulbound.

But the question is do they really earn so much more profit by keeping it soulbound, or would they have earned even more profit by having it account bound.

One of the reasons I’m not going to buy even one of these pickaxes is because it is soulbound instead of accountbound. The other reason is that I don’t feel that a single pickaxe is worth $10/20gold. A full set of gathering tools maybe, but not a single pickaxe.

They earn more by keeping it soulbound so it’s not going to happen.

Account bound would not make them sell more, many of the people that are interested in them have already bought them and will likely buy more for their alts later if they haven’t already.

People that already bought multiples would certainly feel cheated. Any reimbursement options will fall short of pleasing everyone and will be a debacle.

Still, the price is a bit insane for soulbound. You would have to use it over 50k times for it to equal the equivilant of orichalcum picks in gold.

The important thing to realise is that the MA pick is NOT meant to be a cheaper option than, say, buying 400 Orichalcum Picks. Rather, you’re buying it for the convenience of never having to swap out picks or buy picks ever again.

And also if you’re running a fire-themed character and like seeing lava explode everywhere when you mine ore.

Aveneo.2068:

Zaxares.5419:

I wouldn’t object to it becoming account bound as a player, but I very much doubt ANet will do so, not when they can earn so much more profit by keeping it soulbound.

But the question is do they really earn so much more profit by keeping it soulbound, or would they have earned even more profit by having it account bound.

One of the reasons I’m not going to buy even one of these pickaxes is because it is soulbound instead of accountbound. The other reason is that I don’t feel that a single pickaxe is worth $10/20gold. A full set of gathering tools maybe, but not a single pickaxe.

Great question. I doubt we will ever know the answer, however, I can say personally that I am going to buy a couple. I make a decent wage and have the money to blow. I could see how the majority of people wouldn’t want it though, since they would need to buy one per character.

Let’s say you use 100 Orichalcum pickaxes/day. You will mine 500 days to get your moneys worth for buying Molten Pickaxe.

Anyway I will buy it for the looks.

JubeiTM.5763:

Let’s say you use 100 Orichalcum pickaxes/day. You will mine 500 days to get your moneys worth for buying Molten Pickaxe.

Anyway I will buy it for the looks.

Your math is a little off.
If you used 100 picks per day you’d get your moneys worth in 5 days.
Though since there’s nowhere near that many ori nodes and someone using ori picks on anything but ori is an idiot since mithril costs less than half, it’s a bad example anyway.