Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet, i realise that you wish to make certain items bound to an account, however the soulbound is a bit over the top in my opinion, it makes it so that one can not re-use lets say a medium armor set used on another character, it seems like a waste of hardearned cash in my opinion, also i almost fell into a trap buying my necro’s dungeon equipment on my ranger for she had the tokens on her, until i saw the “soulbound on aqquire” i’m glad i did not make that mistake however i do feel this should change

Use a transformation stone. Soul-Bound becomes account bound when it is transformed.

Balderstrom.5809:

Use a transformation stone. Soul-Bound becomes account bound when it is transformed.

I don’t think this should be needed. I agree that soulbound is a silly requirement for a game that already has account-bound unless if there is a financial driven incentive (a.k.a. the gem store gets fatter).

The core reason for soulbound should be to protect the user from keylogging mistakes, but that is also the reason for account bound. So it’s a needless double protection.

As for market stability, both soulbound and accountbound cannot be traded on TP, so no problem there either.

Balderstrom.5809:

Use a transformation stone. Soul-Bound becomes account bound when it is transformed.

sadly not with every item… or maybe not with both kinds of stones..

I used many 79er stones and they didn’t always turn the item to accountbound. Often the result stayed souldound..
Maybe its just only a bug, mayber not and this works just only with the better stones always, havent tested that yet…

Cosmetic skins from the gem store should be accountbound and re-buy-able for free.
This also means removing them from the MF.

+ for everything account bound. It’s stupid that we invest time and money and we can’t use specific things across characters. Even if I had to buy an item to make it account bound would be better than nothing.

Agreed, I definitely understand the need for stuff to be account bound, but soulbound is just over the top.

The game ‘ecomoney’ needs item sinks, and with hand-me-downs, a players could use items used by other characters instead having to acquire new items, losing an important item sink.

I would accept some kind of consumable to unbind an item, making it “account bound+soulbound on use” instead, so a player can unbind and item for another character to use, for a cost; but not directly making them account bound so they can be used again and again.

The one exception is Legendary weapon, as it’s not something you may ever get twice.
Those should be account bound, or skins you unlock for the account and can freely apply to any weapon of the type once unlocked, somewhat like dyes, but account-bound.

If ANET needs money sinks its simple, put a nice item on the black lion trading house. That simple.