Guild Wars 2

I just had the unfortunate moment of discovering that Guild Weapons that you purchase are soulbound to the character. Why is this even a thing?

Reason why I’m complaining is that I was collecting commendations to get myself some weapons in order to use them to craft the Shimmering and Tenebrous versions of them. My case being 2 pistols for each one. Now I was doing my Missions to get these and I did. However, I wasn’t aware that the weapons you purchase were soulbound after being acquired. I bought them with the wrong character.

Now I have spent gold and commendations on weapons that my other character can’t use to craft these weapons. I expected these weapons to be account bound and soulbound when you actually equip them on a specific character, not just outright soulbound it.

I don’t see the point of having these weapons being immediately soulbound when purchased when they are used as crafting materials for another set of weapons. Could you please have it so Guild Weapons are account bound instead?

Hope you can consider my points in here.

you could send in a ticket explaining your situation, Anet is usually pretty good about this kind of thing and I bet they can help u

Have you tried crafting with the weapon in the bank? Items for crafting do not need to be in the actual inventory of the character doing the craft. They just need to be in your bank. I don’t think soulbinding makes a difference for that.

I made that mistake once too. I put in a support ticket, explained the situation. They had me destroy the weapon I bought on the wrong character and they sent me a replacement via mail that I could then pick up on the correct character.

I agree, there’s no reason these need to be soulbound. Account bound is fine for these.

Lamont.5973:

Have you tried crafting with the weapon in the bank? Items for crafting do not need to be in the actual inventory of the character doing the craft. They just need to be in your bank. I don’t think soulbinding makes a difference for that.

If something is soulbound, only that character can use it in whatever means. Including crafting. Thats how I also found out about that detail too.