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The Account Binding of the Birthday Blaster

I just got back from a small 2 month break, and without knowing a couple of my characters were going to get their new birthday presents, I was a bit excited to see that birthday gift come in through the mail.
It was all nice and dandy, I don’t really have much of a use for the instant 20 scroll, the booster is welcome, and the blaster is really neat. However, my main problem (and I’m sure plenty of people will agree) is that the birthday blaster is soulbound.
To me, it doesn’t make too much sense. The only situation I can see it being maybe soulbound for a reason is for key farmers, but it really doesn’t make too much of a difference on them. When you get out of the tutorial zone, everything becomes scaled, so your character wouldn’t be benefiting from the maximum stat increase of the blaster. The reason I find the soulbinding of the blaster incredibly annoying however, is because my main character has switched. It’s probably bound to happen to a lot of people, and when your new main has to wait that painstakingly long period of 2 years to get the birthday blaster for themselves, the entire bundle item just feels worthless. It’s an awesome item for those characters that have it, but when you rarely play on those characters it just feels stupid when you can’t give it to a different character.
So, my suggestion is to make the birthday blaster account bound. Personally, I think any rewards from player anniversaries that give convenience benefits like the blaster should be account bound, because the convenience is worthless if it’s on a character that’s camped at the aetherblade JP chest to get blade shards every 24 hours (or similar situation).

The Account Binding of the Birthday Blaster

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Posted by: Roybe.5896

Roybe.5896

Birthday presents are meant to be for the character, not the account. This is an incentive to NOT delete characters. I have no problems with these being soulbound. It makes game sense and business sense.