Guild Wars 2

its good.

i think it will be a matter of time before they implement it.

considering the permanent gathering tools are 10 bucks each they should just make em account bound :/

This is a great idea. They could make it so that when the item is used, it becomes account bound and soulbound on equip. Would love this honestly.

Great idea for the permanent gathering tools- especially now that they are releasing different themes for them.

give me permanent transmutation stone

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

its good.

i think it will be a matter of time before they implement it.

I really hope so. I would love to know how the devs would feel about an item like this.

I like everything but the timer.

Example: I used a Trading Post consumable 1 minute before the TP went down for maintenance. It was completely wasted and I could do nothing about it.

Someone could use one and get disconnected, or crash, or anything and then they are right back where they started.

I can see the promo now:

NOW in the gem store a sapphire transmutation stone, this little item will allow soulbound items to become account bound once more! With a small timer so as to allow the player the ability to finalize his/her choice…

Yours today for only 799 gems a piece!
Get em while they’re hot!!

edit: spelling

roachsrealm.9284:

I like everything but the timer.

Example: I used a Trading Post consumable 1 minute before the TP went down for maintenance. It was completely wasted and I could do nothing about it.

Someone could use one and get disconnected, or crash, or anything and then they are right back where they started.

The timer only starts ticking AFTER the character you wanted to have it on started wearing it. So that’s moot point.

I dont see the point of the timer to begin with. Is this just so you can swap it between characters to farm a node as fast as you can? If you want to transfer it from one character to another, and you know where you want it to go, why bother with the timer in the first place?

Jasher.6580:

Chop-It-All Logging Axe
Molten Alliance Mining Pick
Consortium Harvesting Sickle

These are soulbound? Ridiculous.

Another boneheaded item. When will Anet get off this horse.

just wanted to point out how players have been trained so well to expect microtransactions, they willingly propose to give money for nearly anything. 5 years ago you would have been asking for this feature to be included in the box price.

roachsrealm.9284:

I dont see the point of the timer to begin with. Is this just so you can swap it between characters to farm a node as fast as you can? If you want to transfer it from one character to another, and you know where you want it to go, why bother with the timer in the first place?

Just in case you equipped on the wrong character by accident.

milo.6942:

just wanted to point out how players have been trained so well to expect microtransactions, they willingly propose to give money for nearly anything. 5 years ago you would have been asking for this feature to be included in the box price.

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable microtransaction though.

Jasher.6580:

milo.6942:

just wanted to point out how players have been trained so well to expect microtransactions, they willingly propose to give money for nearly anything. 5 years ago you would have been asking for this feature to be included in the box price.

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable microtransaction though.

Please buy our pick for $10.
Please buy our item to un-soulbound pick for $10.

Yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy at all.

They have certain items as soulbound for a reason. I’d be surprised if this saw the light of day.

Teege.4623:

They have certain items as soulbound for a reason. I’d be surprised if this saw the light of day.

What would be the reason for not allowing this as a cash shop item exactly?

I don’t think they should give a way to un-soulbind everything, but I do think they should do something about the infinite gathering tools now they’re releasing alternate versions.

My personal favourite suggestion (not mine, someone else posted it a while ago) is that they change them into separate objects and skins. So when you buy one of the tools (existing ones are automatically converted) you get a base gathering tool which is infinite and soulbinds on use, but has no animation, and a skin which gives it an animation. Then when new ones come out you can choose to buy both, buy just the skin or just the base tool (both together would cost the same as the current tools, one part would cost less). And then you can freely swap between your purchased skins.

That would be perfect for me because I bought the molten pick in spite of not liking the animation and now I wish I could swap it for the bone pick (or just disable the animation). I’d be happy to pay extra to have both skins but I’m not going to buy a whole new pick and be stuck with a useless one in my inventory.

Danikat.8537:

I don’t think they should give a way to un-soulbind everything, but I do think they should do something about the infinite gathering tools now they’re releasing alternate versions.

At the very least… but what’s so bad with the idea of unsoulbinding everything at a fee? It’s going to get soulbound again anyway after you re-equip it on an alt… and it’s not like you can trade it to someone else because it will be accountbound.

Charak.9761:

Jasher.6580:

milo.6942:

just wanted to point out how players have been trained so well to expect microtransactions, they willingly propose to give money for nearly anything. 5 years ago you would have been asking for this feature to be included in the box price.

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable microtransaction though.

Please buy our pick for $10.
Please buy our item to un-soulbound pick for $10.

Yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy at all.

They have to make money somehow, the cash shop is fine.

Charak.9761:

Jasher.6580:

milo.6942:

just wanted to point out how players have been trained so well to expect microtransactions, they willingly propose to give money for nearly anything. 5 years ago you would have been asking for this feature to be included in the box price.

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable microtransaction though.

Please buy our pick for $10.
Please buy our item to un-soulbound pick for $10.

Yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy at all.

no that’s not right…..let me fix that for you.

Please buy our pick for $10.
Please buy our item to un-soulbound pick for 200gems for Each Use, as they will explode after you use them, even if you decide not to use it on the toon after the timer counts down.

Yeah that sounds like the crazy that it would be introduced as.

Gummy.4278:

Charak.9761:

Jasher.6580:

milo.6942:

just wanted to point out how players have been trained so well to expect microtransactions, they willingly propose to give money for nearly anything. 5 years ago you would have been asking for this feature to be included in the box price.

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable microtransaction though.

Please buy our pick for $10.
Please buy our item to un-soulbound pick for $10.

Yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy at all.

no that’s not right…..let me fix that for you.

Please buy our pick for $10.
Please buy our item to un-soulbound pick for 200gems for Each Use, as they will explode after you use them, even if you decide not to use it on the toon after the timer counts down.

Yeah that sounds like the crazy that it would be introduced as.

Yeah, but it’s a great idea. Better than what they have now.

RainbowSyrup.4130:

considering the permanent gathering tools are 10 bucks each they should just make em account bound :/

I agree. But this would also spill over to other facets of the game in a very beneficial way. Especially for the people switching mains. It would also be very profitable for ArenaNet.

It’s a Win/Win.

Jasher.6580:

I agree. But this would also spill over to other facets of the game in a very beneficial way. Especially for the people switching mains. It would also be very profitable for ArenaNet.

It’s a Win/Win.

It would also create quite a bit of annoyance with people that bought multiple version of each tool to use on multiple characters.

lordkrall.7241:

Jasher.6580:

I agree. But this would also spill over to other facets of the game in a very beneficial way. Especially for the people switching mains. It would also be very profitable for ArenaNet.

It’s a Win/Win.

It would also create quite a bit of annoyance with people that bought multiple version of each tool to use on multiple characters.

I am one of those people who have done that… and it’s not like it’s free. If someone is crazy enough to spend 10-30 USD every time they decide to unsoulbind something then kudo’s to them. It’s like the people who created and levelled brand new level 80’s to get them to look just like they wanted them to look… or with the name they always wanted… now they have makeover kits and name change scrolls.

It’s the nature of the beast. I don’t think it’s unfair at all.

Again I’m one of those people who bought multiple versions of the tool already.

Well, I bought 6 full sets. And I would like to switch some Halloween pickaxes with the Molten ones, as the Halloween one would be a much better choice for my necro, for example… So yeah, I approve of the idea.

Asmodeus.5782:

Well, I bought 6 full sets. And I would like to switch some Halloween pickaxes with the Molten ones, as the Halloween one would be a much better choice for my necro, for example… So yeah, I approve of the idea.

Awesome Forces!

So what’s the consensus on this?