Guild Wars 2

I’m seeing old perma-harvesting tools being released again, and that’s cool cause causing a lava font when you harvest ore is epic, but what about people who bought these tools the first time around? The original items soulbound to a character, while these editions are account bound. Are previous buyers going to see a coding change so that we don’t have to shell out some $30 on products we already own just because the devs decided they were going to do something that should have been done from the get go?

Uh the original sells can be traded in game to an npc to get account bound variants.

The original soulbound infinite use gathering tools can be traded in for the account bound version at a Black Lion Weapons Specialist.

Previous buyers can go to the Black Lion guy (forgot which one) with the tools in their inventory and have them turned into account bound for free. They’re actually 200 gems forward with this.

Aaah, thank you very much. This wasn’t announced anywhere so I figured they were just going to sweep it under the rug. ^^;

It was announced I think it was in the patch notes when it happened? I know I knew in advance that I could do it, though I did have to ask where the NPC was for the trade-in, but I did the swap minutes after that patch.

They just didn’t keep announcing it or, more practically, add it to the tooltip on the soulbound versions.

Felkes.2759:

Aaah, thank you very much. This wasn’t announced anywhere so I figured they were just going to sweep it under the rug. ^^;

ermmmm it was announced months ago, when these items came out the second time….this is like the 4th or 5th time some of these harvesting tools have been on sale.

Felkes.2759:

Aaah, thank you very much. This wasn’t announced anywhere so I figured they were just going to sweep it under the rug. ^^;

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-November-12-2013/first#post3201227

Previously purchased permanent gathering tools can be upgraded to account-bound versions by unequipping them and bringing them to a Black Lion Weapons Specialist.