Guild Wars 2

As stated in the topic, I am confused as to whether it is a bug or that MF ascended rings/trinkets that were once soulbound will become account bound or not. I don’t want to jump into conclusions but thought I’d ask first and find an answer since I cannot find it anywhere!

I thought the GW2 announcement said that, “Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.”

So…when the MF nerf came, I hovered my mouse over my MF ascended rings (soulbound) and double clicking it, it showed it as “account bound, soulbound on use” when I am selecting replacement stats. So, I decided since I already have non-MF ascended rings, I might as well give these “account-bound” rings to my other char. I double clicked the item (the rings were in my bank) and it showed replacement stats and the whole, “account bound, soulbound on use” thing, and I select a stat. Then I was able to transfer it to this char but noticed it’s still “soulbound to another character”…basically even though I was able to select different stats for it, it is still soulbound to the original character…

Ummm is this supposed to happen?? Or is it a bug? Or are soulbound MF gear not included in the whole “weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound” statement not apply for these trinkets??

Thanks in advance.

Isn’t you already answered yourself? The item is now “account bound, soulbound on use”, therefore when you double click the item it is “on use” and therefore it become soulbound. You should put the item in bank and let the desired character to use the item and select a desired stat.

That’s what I did…

Basically, person A owns the MF ascended ring. MF nerf comes and supposedly makes it “account bound”.
Person B selects this item (it’s still listed as soulbound if you hover mouse over it) from bank, since person B cannot withdraw it from bank. Person B selects stats and boom! The ascended ring is STILL soulbound to person A…

Basically, person B or any character from the account can choose stats, but cannot wear it. It is still soulbound to original owner.

I’m basically asking is this a bug or intended? I thought the MF change would make it account bound, meaning that previously soulbound items will turn account bound and let anyone in the account use it, because frankly, I cannot use it on my other character…-__-

I believe it is a bug, because the way round it would not make any sense. I have got the same problem with my main character, whose magic find gear is unusable now and has nice skins on it that i would like to keep, but cannot use anymore.

Any soulbound items remained soulbound. There’s a few threads around with Dev responses.