Guild Wars 2

Tokens now being account bound is a great thing, thank you ArenaNet. However, I feel that it will be great if you can push this a little further, to runes drop from dungeon specific chests as well.

One Dungeon specific superior runes costs 120 tokens and if you get a drop on a character that you will very unlikely use it on then the only current other options are to keep them (hoping that this will change) or vendor them for a 17 silvers each. Selling something that is worth 120 tokens each to vendors for just 17 silvers seems like you are throwing away a lot. Dungeon Exotic Head pieces are for 180 tokens each vs comparable stat gear on the TP will be going for 2g+.

For instance I have 2 Superior Runes of the Monk from Chests drops from AC Ex soulbund to my Ranger. Although my Ranger can still make use of it I rather use it one a set for my Guardian. Should I be regretting that I did not run on my Guardian for those runs I got the runes dropping on for my Ranger?

I can understand reasoning for when you buy things from the tokens vendors the items bought become soulbound, after all that was a conscious decision to use account bound tokens to buy soulbound items for a specific character. Of course it’s still a conscious choice to use my Ranger or my Guardian on a run but it’s up to chance for get the rune drop (vs. 100% trading 120 tokens for one) and the decision may also come down to team composition as well as experience gain.

Whether I run AC Ex on my Ranger or on my Guardian it’s still me playing. Just as getting tokens awarded to the account for you as a player (not as a character) then will it not make more sense to make Runes dropping from Dungeon Chests also account bound? Please note that I am asking to only make these Runes dropping from chests to become account bound. It isn’t necessary to necessary to increase the vendor price, 17 silver is not a bad price as is when you have absolutely no use for it on any of your characters.