Guild Wars 2

I’ve had this thought for awhile: Since I don’t use some of my other toons anymore, I feel I’ve wasted a great deal of effort in obtaining their weapons and I’d still like to use them on my newer toons.
Perhaps to have an item to remove the “Soulbind” on a single equip and convert it to “Account Bound”. So that way another character can now Soulbind it and use it instead. I feel it’s fair – seeing as it won’t flood the market as I said they’ll be soulbound right after another character uses it on that account.
And I’m very sure many other people are in this same situation with multiple characters.
Thoughts?

don’t know whether it still works for high level gear cause I never bothered testing but the starting items(necro masks etc) can be transmuted onto white rarity items, making them account bound.
However, I don’t know, how filled upgrade slots would affect that.
You’d still need to get exotics and another set of transmutation stones to transmute them back to proper stats, even if it works.

Two ways that won’t work. I’m trying to transmute a greatsword. If I were to transmute it into say, a white Greatsword, it’s still Soulbound through the Transmution Stones. Plus the weapon also keeps the highest rarity due to a recent previous patch.
Appreciate the reply though, but the only work-around that’s known is for backpacks, not armors or weapons. Unfortunately.

So we can’t make faction items tradeable between characters anymore?

Genesis.7864:

If I were to transmute it into say, a white Greatsword, it’s still Soulbound through the Transmution Stones.

This isn’t true. It SAYS it’ll be soulbound due to the transmutation stone, but after you use the stone, the item actually becomes account bound.

Unless they just made they just updated it within the last three hours that I did this, or if it’s only the case for cultural armor.

I just deleted one of my Sylvari Elementalists that had a mix of T2 and T3 cultural, but I didn’t want to lose the pieces, so I transmuted them all onto white pieces of armor. After everytime I transmuted a piece, it said “Account Bound” rather than “Soul Bound” so now I have a bunch of account bound cultural armor sitting in my bank.

I’m all for this change. I think its pretty ridiculous to have items transmuted only for it to be soulbound. It just discourages customisation of skins. Those unwanted items would be only hoarding bank slots as other alts would be unable to use them

If anything, transmuted items should be account bound. It’ll be a great plus and benefit for players. Really interested to hear what Anet’s intention was for transmutated items to be soulbound.