Guild Wars 2

IF you buy the laurel gear, the gear should be account bound due to the fact that you can’t earn laurels per character, you have to earn them for the account.

Agreed 100%. The laurel/ascended system really needs work but this is a good start. If you want to realistically buy ascended gear with laurels it’ll take 3-4 weeks of playing every day. Some people simply can’t do that especially for more than one character and the fact that there are several trinket slots that can be filled with ascended per character. I’m not sure where ANet’s reasoning for this is but I personally don’t think it’s worth the effort involved the way it is now.

Okay guys, get ready for the uber-leet WoW teenagers to jump on ya. Because they “worked” for their ascended gear (lol). And although every single one of them claim they could care less about stat advantages over other players, every single one of them throw a tantrum if their gear does not have stat advantages over other players.

But yes, I agree. If we are in fact stuck with the ascended-gear vertical progression garbage dump, then everything and anything that makes it more meaningless would be welcome.

Fortunately the rumor is that Anet is moving away from the failed vertical progression experiment, and returning to the skill-based horizontal progression model they marketed the game as for years. I’ve also heard that there is a massive number of beautiful new armor and weapon skins being designed by Anet, with a myriad of paths to attain them (laurels, dungeons, gem store, karma, crafting ect…).

As builds are buffed or nerfed Im left with all these now useless trinkets that took me months to get now just taking up inventory space on my characters. It makes me sad to see that happen, at the very least I would like to be able to unsoulbind my trinkets for five laurels then just become soulbound again on use or something similar.

Penguin.5197:

At the very least I would like to be able to unsoulbind my trinkets for five laurels then just become soulbound again on use or something similar.

This! +1

There are also people suggesting some king of gem item to unsoulbind stuff (making it accound bound). That would also be a solution.

I have a lot of alts and have changed the build of my main twice, leaving me with banked ascendeds which d be very useful on my alts, but useless as long as they remain soulbound. (and infusing all of them in the mf to get them acc bound isn’t really an option… )

Ronin Orca.4132:

Penguin.5197:

At the very least I would like to be able to unsoulbind my trinkets for five laurels then just become soulbound again on use or something similar.

This! +1

There are also people suggesting some king of gem item to unsoulbind stuff (making it accound bound). That would also be a solution.

I have a lot of alts and have changed the build of my main twice, leaving me with banked ascendeds which d be very useful on my alts, but useless as long as they remain soulbound. (and infusing all of them in the mf to get them acc bound isn’t really an option… )

I always try to tell myself that anet doesn’t hate money but then I remember that they haven’t created a gem store doodad that turns a soulbound item into an account bound/soulbound on use item yet, because… reasons?

Would love to see this as well. I’ve got trinkets sitting on characters I will never use again as I’m being reduced to using only one in WvW and further reduced with my PvE characters as well (ascended weapons/gear).

I would even pay a fee on the gem store to be able to have these account bound.

However, realistically, that means a reduction in the effectiveness of laurels as a motivator for causing customers to log in on a daily, long-term basis. That’s something I doubt ANet would willingly surrender. For obvious reasons.

I would settle for a gem purchase that refunds the laurels at a less than 100% exchange rate, and would be happy to continue doing dailies to get back to the full amount required to purchase a new item from the laurel merchant. I would take 50% exchange rate. Would be better than having items that are just sitting there getting absolutely no use.

-I am allowed to be unrealistic occasionally, aren’t I?

I think ANet’s plan with ridiculous grind and per-character restrictions on Ascended gear was that people would be occupied with it for a very, very long time.

In practice, it seems, most quickly figure out how big of an investment it is and choose not to bother.

All my laurels go towards saving up for a Mystery Cat Tonic. Much better investment.

The way things are now makes me focus on one or two builds. One PvE and one WvW. I dont do fractals so ya…too much time to invest to get ascended trinkets for more than one or two toons. I would also like to see account bound trinkets thank you.

Substance E.4852:

I always try to tell myself that anet doesn’t hate money but then I remember that they haven’t created a gem store doodad that turns a soulbound item into an account bound/soulbound on use item yet, because… reasons?

Exactly.

Transmutation splitter is being used for that but is useless for trinkets (& way too expensive when transferring multiple items).

Either they should make all items (like harvesting tools) account bound, or at least all trinkets. Or they should implement some kind of soulbound → account bound item (suggested in this thread as well: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Gem-item-Un-soulbid/first#post3255726 )

Actually the easier solution would be to make them tradeable before first use- which would release all those trinkets people have collected from fractals onto the market as well as opening up a good farm for those that like to do fractals (which isn’t me, I did it once and will never return).

It might even make fractals less of a ghost town as there would be a reason to go there….

Victory.2879:

Actually the easier solution would be to make them tradeable before first use- which would release all those trinkets people have collected from fractals onto the market as well as opening up a good farm for those that like to do fractals (which isn’t me, I did it once and will never return).

It might even make fractals less of a ghost town as there would be a reason to go there….

To do this they would have to drastically nerf the drop rate within fractals because ascended would quickly become cheaper than exotic. This would hurt fractals, at one little piece of the game that only a portion of the community plays, that they invested so much time in to. I think they should be account bound and never become soul bound…especially the ones purchased though the laurel vendors. Soulbound is punishment for time spend. “Soulbound” is one of the largest reasons I’ve never pursued an alt…not one.

Essentially you’d have to make ascended gear as scarce, even more so presumably, as exotics are in normal dungeons, and what would that do to fracals?