Guild Wars 2

Hello.

So, I would like to see GOOD reasoning behind this system.

Let’s say I buy an item on my guardian. I use it for a while but later on decide to switch to another piece of equipment because it has better stats or it looks better. Why shouldn’t I be able to use the same piece on, say, a warrior? Oh, right, because instead of it being bound to my account, it’s stuck to my character.

I bought T3 Charr armour before and because I wasn’t well informed, put it in the bank before deleting my character. Boom. 2-3 gold I could have gotten by selling it, destroyed forever.

Permanent mining tools. Why didn’t I get them? Oh, right, because they’d be stuck to my character. So, once I change my equipment because I’m bored of it, the gear I spent so much gold on will be only worth anything to the NPC. Why? Just why? Account bound items are cool, fine, nobody minds (most of) those. But everybody hates soulbound items, including me and I only ever really play one character at a time.

Why was this even implemented and why hasn’t it been removed yet?

It’s to keep the economy stable and prevent deflation. If you can just use it on any character, you’ll never have the need to buy an item again after you bought it, hence completely removing your demand in the market.

It’s what happened in GW1 as well. As the game progressed, weapons with good stats became virtually worthless except for the ones with rare skins, because you could sell and resell them ad libitum.

It’s an essential part of the game and it’s not going anywhere.

Making it account bound wouldn’t make it resellable.

Yes, please; drop soul bound for account bound.

Soulbound has to be replaced with Account Bound.

bumping this because it’s important

Agreed. Soulbound needs to be switched to account bound. I am starting to get tired of buying new infinite tools every time i make a new character.

+1, 1999 called and they want’s their soul bound back (EverQuest)

its time to make it about the account/Player, and less about the characters.

Convert the code from Soulbound into Account Bound.

Soulbinding some items makes sense for the economy, so I’m not sure that it should be entirely removed. However, there’s plenty of room for improving the current system.

For starters, anything you can get with account-bound currency should never be soulbound: runes, sigils, and other gear bought with karma or dungeon tokens should be accountbound — the currency is account bound, why are some items soulbound on acquisition?

Currently, whites and blues remain unbound after equipping, unless upgraded. So maybe masterwork and rare items should only become accountbound upon equipping. (I’m okay with the idea of them becoming soulbound after upgrading.)

Ascended items. Well, everything about them is soulbound. I don’t think it’s likely that ANet will change that soon.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Soulbinding some items makes sense for the economy, so I’m not sure that it should be entirely removed. However, there’s plenty of room for improving the current system.

For starters, anything you can get with account-bound currency should never be soulbound: runes, sigils, and other gear bought with karma or dungeon tokens should be accountbound — the currency is account bound, why are some items soulbound on acquisition?

Currently, whites and blues remain unbound after equipping, unless upgraded. So maybe masterwork and rare items should only become accountbound upon equipping. (I’m okay with the idea of them becoming soulbound after upgrading.)

Ascended items. Well, everything about them is soulbound. I don’t think it’s likely that ANet will change that soon.

That is not true, Ascended everything is account bound, until equipped.

Vocah.1208:

So, I would like to see GOOD reasoning behind this system.

Some things need to be soulbound. Collection quests, for example. They don’t want your high level character collecting materials and then giving them to one of your lower level characters to hand in for a reward.

Otherwise, they are soulbound crazy. Way over the top. Dragon Bash fireworks were soulbound? Who came up with that brilliant idea? The last thing I want is multiple piles of fireworks clogging up my inventory because they are soulbound and won’t stack with the ones collected on another character. (And they were the rotten kind too… super-slow between launches. No fun. All trash canned.)