Guild Wars 2

Why are dungeon armor/weapons soulbound? What is the logical reasoning behind having these items soulbound on acquire? Is there a specific purpose?

Please, take into consideration my story, which happens everyday to people all over the world as well. I’ll shorten it up.

I’m on my level 80 warrior. I decide to get the CoF set for my thief for when he hits level 80 himself. I get the chest piece and the legs in about say, 5 days. I buy the pieces, on my warrior, and deposit them into my bank. Thief reaches 80. Go to bank and the items are soulbound. ~5 days and ~650 tokens down the drain.

My suggestion, as this is a suggestion sub-forum, is to make ALL dungeon armor and weapons ACCOUNT BOUND. I legitimately cannot see a good purpose for having these items soulbound, as they can be soulbound to a character who can’t even use the armor type. It’s dumbfounded.

Thank you for reading my suggestion. Feedback is appreciated. Thank you

… Tokens are account-bound. Just send the tokens to the character in question. Problem solved.

But if the tokens are account bound why not have the items account bound also in case this situation happens again? I didn’t know that, personally.

It’s to discourage sharing armor sets between characters. IE using the same armor set on a Thief and Ranger by just switching it to the one you intend to use and leaving the other temporarily nude. At least this way, you can farm the set for any character you want, but not for EVERY character of that armor tier.

The answer is as obvious as it is simple: so that you can’t just buy one armour set or weapon and pass it around all your characters.

Reasonable answer. Thanks for the feedback. But I still feel this whole idea, regardless of “discouraging sharing armor sets” needs to be removed as this happens to many people and then -discourages- the actual player from the game.

A reasonable solution could be to sell the dungeon armour pieces in some sort of package:

Account Bound on purchase, but when you open it to retrieve the armour piece it becomes Soulbound to the character unwrapping it.

I agree with you there. It’s transferable between characters but once you open it it’s soulbound to whoever opened it. I like it.

Actually I bit agree with OP. The armor and weapon which are bought out by token should be account bound at first, then they becomes soulbound when they are equipped. (Like ascended ring from FoTM. First it account bound, after you equip it, it becomes soulbound.