Guild Wars 2

When mousing over a Soulbound item in the bank, rather than displaying “Soulbound to another character”, replace the “another character” with the actual character name.

This is the sort of simple usability change that, if not impractical for non-obvious reasons, could likely be done for next to no cost when someone is in the right piece of code – and would save some of us, at least, hours of occasional frustration. (Other people will never hit it, or simply won’t understand what the problem is. that’s the way of the world.)

If, like me, you suffer from alt-oholism, you’ll know that sinking feeling when you go to try and use something you’ve saved for a rainy day, and realise that it’s soulbound to another character (in my case, most commonly it’s things like Skill Point scrolls, but it’s been gear once or twice as well). There’s also the annoying and unneccessary difficulty of actually trying to keep straight and organise such soulbound stuff as you genuinely want to put in the bank.

Unfortunately, whilst the game is quick to point out that something belongs to another character, it doesn’t give you any hints as to which one – the only way to track it down is to go through your characters one at a time until you find the one it belongs to. Which is annoying, and when it happens takes significant time I could be using better (and, in my case at least, as I normally simply drop my characters into WvW in order to access the bank and vendors via the convenient crafting stations, probably means I also take up a space in WvW that someone else could potentially be using more profitably for the purpose for which it’s intended). And whilst I haven’t experienced it, there’s even the extreme case where the item might have been soulbound to a character that has since been deleted – how on earth are we easily supposed to sort that one out? Just keep running through the characters until we’re absolutely convinced we’ve checked them all, I suppose.