Guild Wars 2

Hello!

I’m pretty confident I did an adequate amount of digging to see if this solution has been posted before and I haven’t found a single thread, only suggestions to the fix. SO!

I’ve just found a way to make a soulbound rune as effective as an account bound rune:

for the sake of too many words, I’ll be using “C1” to signify Character 1, and “C2” to signify Character 2
-You’ve found a soulbound rune from a dungeon on C1
-You want this soulbound rune on C2
-Isolate the rune on C1 (by salvaging) and store it in the bank (You must store it in the bank so your other characters can view it)

To apply soulbound dungeon runes to another character’s armor
-Switch to C2
-(For ease) Put the rune’s future equipment piece in the bank as well.
-Go to the bank, right-click the C1’s soulbound rune, and select “use”
-Apply the rune onto this new equipment and select “Upgrade” to the new confirmation window that should’ve popped up.

And tada! C2’s piece of equipment now has the rune that was previously soulbound to C1!

Discovered this with a Superior Rune of the Monk obtained with my Guardian and applied it to my Engineer’s armor with the exact method shown above.

Have fun! (:

Nice! However does this work with soulbound runes not on equipment? I found 2 superior runes of the forgeman the other night, and would like them on another character. Also this sounds like either a bug or an exploit. Do you have confirmation that this is neither of those? Id hate to do it and have an infraction. (Also to help you OP, because if this is either of those, this thread will be closed and you could also be liable for an infraction)

Oh, nice find! I used to do it by putting the soulbound rune onto a white piece of equipment (stays account bound even though the description says “soulbound”), then putting it into the bank, picking it up on C2, and then salvaging it off.

Your method can save me a BLSK use depending on circumstances though!

pdavis.8031:

Nice! However does this work with soulbound runes not on equipment? I found 2 superior runes of the forgeman the other night, and would like them on another character. Also this sounds like either a bug or an exploit. Do you have confirmation that this is neither of those? Id hate to do it and have an infraction. (Also to help you OP, because if this is either of those, this thread will be closed and you could also be liable for an infraction)

Hey, thanks for the lookout!

It does work for soulbound runes that haven’t been applied yet, just follow the method from the second half, (Get on C2, right-click, use, etc.). And I hope it’s not a bug/exploit or else ahh! haha.

If it is an exploit, I wouldn’t think I would be punished as it’s been acknowledged by Content Designer, Robert Hrouda, that a soulbound dungeon rune is “odd”:

Thanks for the headsup on this. I’ll be sure to let our items folks know about the rune being soul bound. That seems odd to me!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-chest-runes-Soulbound/first#post388389

I’ll take my chances though.

sweet! Thanks!! Ill check it out!

Next patch notes:

• fixed a bug where soulbound runes could be used account-wise.

Arricson Krei.9560:

If it is an exploit, I wouldn’t think I would be punished as it’s been acknowledged by Content Designer, Robert Hrouda, that a soulbound dungeon rune is “odd”:

Thanks for the headsup on this. I’ll be sure to let our items folks know about the rune being soul bound. That seems odd to me!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-chest-runes-Soulbound/first#post388389

Well, they laid him off over a year ago (something about not meeting ANet’s high standards for ignoring players on forums), so I wouldn’t count too much on his posts being relevant to the current attitudes at ANetHQ.

Fror.2163:

Next patch notes:

• fixed a bug where soulbound runes could be used account-wise.

Can you cite where you found this bit? It still works, just tested it 2 minutes ago; I used the same method displayed in the original post.

Arricson Krei.9560:

Fror.2163:

Next patch notes:

• fixed a bug where soulbound runes could be used account-wise.

Can you cite where you found this bit? It still works, just tested it 2 minutes ago; I used the same method displayed in the original post.

check the hours…