Account bound – Can it really be made to be fun ?
I would like to show you why changing every equipment from soul-bound to account-bound can be:
Fun.
Inspiring.
Making the game more appealing, increasing game diversity.
…maybe a bit scary.
Fun – the main aim of Arenanet and us – the players.
Wouldn’t it be fun to use the same Sunrise on your guardian, warrior, mesmer and ranger?
Or maybe you think this will result in not having anything to do in game?
Personally, the particle effects and animations of the legendary weapons are the main reasons to make one in the first place. Being able to use this weapon with different classes will inspire me to try new strategies and combinations.
Someone said – why stop on different classes? Why not same class and different race!
This way people can actually spot and enjoy the differences between the animation of the same legendary on different race. For example: Twilight scales in size on asura and char – some people will find this to be fun to experiment with.
Changing soul bound items to account bound will also solve some of the issues we have, such as:
fractal level is account wide and agony resistance is soul bound. This prevents us from playing different characters (classes) on higher level of fractals – or at least makes it very expensive to gear-up a second character with ascended weapons and armors, just so you can play fractals.
This is even worse if someone buys a higher agony resist. It seems unlikely to buy +12 Agony infusion (150 gold) for every character and every piece of equipment.
I asked some friends, what do they think about this idea.
One mentioned: “For me gearing-up a new character is the fun part of the game. After I level it up to 80 and buy him the gear, I lose some of the interest of the game. If I am able to just transfer my equipment from my main to my alt character, this will just be easier… and I will lose interest faster”
Making ascended and legendary weapons and armors takes a lot of time and effort. Does it take less effort to make 3 heavy ascended sets for 2 characters than making 3 sets for only one character?
I think this is an advantage. For example – I don’t have a guardian and I don’t want to make one. But if everything is account bound, I would like to make a char guardian just so I can see my legendary appear HUGE. I can even consider making the legendary hammer just so I can see people flying around from my skill 4.
If I have a lot of spare time and resources – I am making every ascended weapon, since I can use them with every class. Currently I am making ascended weapons only for my main. Where my alts are enjoying normal exotic gear. This forces me, in a way, to distinguish my main from my alts, instead of having lots of “mains” (I believe the majority of players are doing the same).
If I have even more resources – I can consider making some legendaries instead of ascended.
Thank you for reading and lets discuss.
Translated in English by QakaKaka :-)
. It would take some gold sinks out of the game as well as you can already do this in a way by giving Anet money by purchasing transmutation crystals and splitters. It also might mess with the economy. But I agree with you, I would love for them to be account bound and I would actually pay a gem store price to make Aj item account bound if it existed.