Guild Wars 2

Rejoice!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/account-bound-wxp-legendaries-and-ascended-gear/

Yup. These are all-around good changes. Arguably, this should have been the way things were designed from the start, but regardless, it’s nice to see alts as being more viable now.

Ahhhh!! So good!!

I really like these changes, especially because I like to play wvw with multiple characters.

Now I need a new mule to store everything else on lol.

I wonder if we can freely move around transmuted ascended armor though.

And this wasn’t even the “Removing Restrictions” blog. Guess i can have some good hopes about it…

I will finally make Ascended Armor. Maybe.

Cool thing: all of my 80s can now be fractal runners, assuming trinkets are account bound as well.

Indeed, great update. I have so many ascvended rings between characters. Woot.

Still no tradable ascended gear…. -,-

GG Anet.

All great changes! (Would be even nicer to see that you can trade Ascended gear, but I’ll take it as it is!)

Well, there’s the account bound wxp everyone’s been saying was never going to come, even though they’d been told it was. Huzzah!

I’m underwhelmed by the account bound legendary and ascended gear though. I’m sure I’ll appreciate it eventually.

Even if they added this to Account-Bound, Soulbound is still something to make sense, many things are strictly locked to our char that could give us more freedom = less grind like madness.
For example even with exotics when we upgrade to ascended we could give the exotics to another char, at least we can still salvage.

I hope the next blog post remove restrictions from ascended gear, salvage? Trade? Mystic Forge Usage?! At least 1 of them we need.

Hurray! Nice changes coming.

Looks like when my Warrior takes over as my main (changing to him from my Guardian) he’ll be inheriting quite a bit of ascended trinkets and and Ascended GS. Now he just needs to level Hunstman to 500 so he can get his shiny red Longbow.

At any moment someone is going to stop buy and say they made two ascended/legendary whatever and demand their choice of a different legendary to make up for it.

What sword and dagger are those? They look like some sort of upgraded ascended thing?

JustTrogdor.7892:

At any moment someone is going to stop buy and say they made two ascended/legendary whatever and demand their choice of legendary to make up for it.

Yup. All the people who crafted multiple ascended armors for alts. Prepare yourselves.

At Zudet, that’s wupwup weapons

Any predictions on what this will do to the legendary market, I know this isn’t the market channel but making them less unique will drop their prices, no??

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Still no tradable ascended gear…. -,-

Always one person that just can’t be happy when good things happen : /

To be honest, now they’re making legendaries account bound I don’t get why the skins should be in the wardrobe. It’ll only make everyone have legenadaries everywhere and when I see a legenadary I want to know it is in fact a legendary not a lvl 12 weapon transmuted to look like one. People are gonna be able to swap em around anyway now.

So still no making the specific dungeon runes/sigils account bound?
Which makes me wonder, what will happen to the items when we put a rune/sigil/infusions into the items? Are they going to still stay accountbound?

I did… ._.

yet the change is useless unless they give us a less expensive way to Exchange equipment…

If you need to change character, going to bank, swapping, loading new character and rejoining will have you booted from any party. (5-10 minutes?).

YES!

Now we only have to craft 1 Stat Combination of Ascended Gear for War/Guard, 1 for Ele/Mes/Nec, and one for Ranger/Engi/Thief.

And Legendary Account Bound Weapons! YES! OH MY QUAGGANS, YES!

Lilith Ajit.6173:

JustTrogdor.7892:

At any moment someone is going to stop buy and say they made two ascended/legendary whatever and demand their choice of legendary to make up for it.

Yup. All the people who crafted multiple ascended armors for alts. Prepare yourselves.

At Zudet, that’s wupwup weapons

Ahh thanks!

I don’t think people who crafted multiple sets of ascended armor will have much to complain about. They are few to begin with, and you still need multiple sets for each character anyway so nothing has changed. It just allows you to give it to another character if you change builds on one character.

I am sad that legendary weapons can still be traded. I was really hoping they’d be made account bound on creation finally.

Awesome in every way – I am very pleased with these changes.

Anet is going in the right direction.Huzzah!

Cassocaster.4576:

Any predictions on what this will do to the legendary market, I know this isn’t the market channel but making them less unique will drop their prices, no??

Why don’t people understand that this isn’t creating more people with legendaries….holy crap people are dense.

Thank you arena net! I love you!

i just hope the WXP boosters are going to be more like a toggle then an item, deleting them is a chore in it’s own and i never ever use them……if only i could exchange them for normal XP boosters.

Token.5098:

To be honest, now they’re making legendaries account bound I don’t get why the skins should be in the wardrobe. It’ll only make everyone have legenadaries everywhere and when I see a legenadary I want to know it is in fact a legendary not a lvl 12 weapon transmuted to look like one. People are gonna be able to swap em around anyway now.

If legendary is account bound, you don’t need to transmute a lvl12 weapon with the legendary skin. Just take the legendary weapon instead…

This is excellent news. While the prices for legendaries are no doubt going to sky rocket for a while after this, the news certainly makes up for it. Great job Anet, especially for the WXP being account bound. Keep it up!

Now if only we could craft precursors to make up for the RNG game that holds so many people back, then I’m sure I (and many others) will be 100% sold.

Aberrant.6749:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Still no tradable ascended gear…. -,-

Always one person that just can’t be happy when good things happen : /

So far most of these don’t feel like Features . Wardrobe (and maybe the ones from yesterdays lfg article) does, but most of these other changes don’t feel like “features” to me, they feel more like balance things, or things they could have just put in different releases.

Still no news on new legendaries, however.

sonic.7592:

Token.5098:

To be honest, now they’re making legendaries account bound I don’t get why the skins should be in the wardrobe. It’ll only make everyone have legenadaries everywhere and when I see a legenadary I want to know it is in fact a legendary not a lvl 12 weapon transmuted to look like one. People are gonna be able to swap em around anyway now.

If legendary is account bound, you don’t need to transmute a lvl12 weapon with the legendary skin. Just take the legendary weapon instead…

Legendaries require you to be 80 to equip them…

Cassocaster.4576:

Any predictions on what this will do to the legendary market, I know this isn’t the market channel but making them less unique will drop their prices, no??

Hard to say. Maybe over the long haul. The market might remain stable for a time, though. Supply is not likely to increase overnight. There might even be a small spike in demand for a time — if this change convinces people to purchase one who did not previously intend to.

Sucks that if you have ascended armor on a cultural armor it doesn’t matter though lol.

This is the best thing they did since ascended gear came. This is what i wanted and i am extremely grateful.
I suppose there will be no feature to be able to give ascended armor from my warrior/guardian to my thief (something like transform from heavy to medium and then back if i need)
But i don’t complain. This is still great change and what is more important this is something we wanted, something we asked to have and we have it now.

Another thought, the shared WXP also begs the question of whether ranks will still be displayed since they will become rather useless. I build a new toon and they have 400 rank points to distribute…..guess that bronze general won’t be expecting that when he’s rolled by an assaulter

Izaya.2906:

sonic.7592:

Token.5098:

To be honest, now they’re making legendaries account bound I don’t get why the skins should be in the wardrobe. It’ll only make everyone have legenadaries everywhere and when I see a legenadary I want to know it is in fact a legendary not a lvl 12 weapon transmuted to look like one. People are gonna be able to swap em around anyway now.

If legendary is account bound, you don’t need to transmute a lvl12 weapon with the legendary skin. Just take the legendary weapon instead…

Legendaries require you to be 80 to equip them…

Lol then you can look at the level of the player to see if it’s a real legendary or not (at least in groups).

sirflamesword.3896:

Sucks that if you have ascended armor on a cultural armor it doesn’t matter though lol.

Or does it?!

If you have t3 human skin on ascended armor, I bet you can still swap the ascended around characters, but only your other human characters will be able to wear it.

Vol.7601:

Still no news on new legendaries, however.

I know… sad day

I’ve been waiting to make a hopefully much more necro suited legendary for a year now. I got my mastery and fortune gifts all set, and mats and money for whatever else they throw at me… but they just never seem to come. I feel like the new legendarys are the feature the most people are waiting on. I know I have about a dozen guild mates who are just in a holding pattern until they release them.

Ty Anet for reducing some of the game grind by giving us just about everything account bound
Really looking forward to this update!

With ascended grade gear being account bound instead of soul bound on equip, and trasmutting an item soul binding a gear, what happens to ascended armor that we trasmute to other skins?

Can we still move them around or are we stuck with ascended armor skins if we want it to be account bound?

The dye change, the wardrobe, and the WXP I am very very happy with. The account binding of ascended/legendaries just leaves me disappointed that all the rest of my gear is still soulbound. It is a good change and a point in favor of finally making a legendary, but when i make a legendary I want to be able to pass the exotic it’s replacing on to one of my other alts.

Cassocaster.4576:

Another thought, the shared WXP also begs the question of whether ranks will still be displayed since they will become rather useless. I build a new toon and they have 400 rank points to distribute…..guess that bronze general won’t be expecting that when he’s rolled by an assaulter

I’m 99.9% sure that your level is account bound as well. So if you make a new character it will be level 400 and have the associated title.

Wohooo, ascended and legendary account bound. Thank you, Anet. Finally some good news.

YAY!!!!… alt friendliness is arriving in Tyria. I so wish I didn’t buy another full set of Asc trinkets last week though, ugg! lol