Guild Wars 2

By “gear”, does this include all accessories, or just weapons and armor?

If it includes accessories, it means I’ll have a lot of wasted duplicate stuff sitting around… not that I would really mind since having them be account bound would be really convenient, but there would be absolutely no point in holding onto duplicate ascended rings anymore if this is the case.

I couldn’t find any official statement on this, just references to “equipment” and “gear”. I assume it means everything, but I just want to be sure before I make a decision prior to the feature patch that I end up regretting.

I’ve been assuming it means every piece of equipment as they’ve not said it’s limited to this or that type.

In the spirit of caution though delete your duplicate trinkets after the patch

I’m assuming its armor and not trinkets since armor is arguably the more costly and time consuming of the two.

i kinda want to know this, kitten whoever wrote that blog post with vague wording

Hmm… I didn’t even think about this. When I read it, I just unconciously assumed it meant crafted stuff. If they’re going that far, I suppose it makes sense that they’d do it with rings and such too, but I can’t say I’d be torn up if they didn’t.

Alfador.7649:

Hmm… I didn’t even think about this. When I read it, I just unconciously assumed it meant crafted stuff. If they’re going that far, I suppose it makes sense that they’d do it with rings and such too, but I can’t say I’d be torn up if they didn’t.

It would really blow for me, having to do 500 fractals again to get the backpeicel on every character is NOT FUN

A friend and I were talking about this today too. If it includes trinkets and such, that would be awesome. That would mean I can put my syzygy with its 20% magic find infusion from my guardian, on to my elementalist whenever I want :-P though I won’t be too sad if it doesn’t include trinkets and all that either way.

The best part is being able to trade around the agony resist from class to class. That should also drive down the absurd +10 agony infusion prices as there will be less demand for them now that people can share their AR gear among toons.

Zenith.7301:

The best part is being able to trade around the agony resist from class to class. That should also drive down the absurd +10 agony infusion prices as there will be less demand for them now that people can share their AR gear among toons.

Could go either way. It’ll either drive them down in price because you can just trade them around or drive them up because people are doing less fractals for the +1s.

It says ascended equipment which to me means all ascended items.

So I guess they backtracked.

This is from the other day:

That means that if you made Twilight, you will have access to both the Twilight and Dusk skins across your entire account.

Then we get this:

In the upcoming April feature build, we will be converting all legendary and ascended equipment to be account-based. This means ascended equipment will always remain account-bound and will not soulbind to a character when equipped.

So, from what I get from this is they backtracked. No more cloned Legendary weapons or ascendeds. In order to pass them along they cannot cloned but physically passed along. It could also mean that the skins will still be cloneable but also that the originals will be account bound. Personally I believe that it is that Ascended and Legendary weapons are only going to be account bound and not cloneable. I think that this is a good thing but, of course, not everyone will agree.

Perhaps we could have some definitive clarification regarding this matter.

Skins is different to equipment. I don’t see much in the way of a back-track here.

So not only will all ascended and legendary weapons be account bound but cloneable to other base weapons as well?

Interesting.

That’s what it looks like. They’re opening a lot of things up.