Guild Wars 2

Will crafting become account bound in HOT? I’m not sure if this has been answered yet or not.

I noticed that in the HOT precursor collections post it mentioned that crafting will be involved in the second stage of precursor collection not through the mystic forge.
“The second collection in your journey involves doing your research, talking to the experts, and honing your craft”
“and prove your ability at the crafting workbench”
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-legendary-journey/

I imagine this could get really tedious if i have to keep switching between characters running long distances between npc’s to access whichever craft i need at the time. Some of my characters have max craft’s while having hardly any wp’s available since i did it all at wvw stations while others have map completion with no crafts at all.

I would love to see crafting becoming account bound with HOT. The limit of 2 per character just seems stupid to me at this point and adds a lot of cluster between character, material and learned craft swapping.

The collections themselves will be account bound, but I don’t think crafting should be as well. Even if the materials needed to craft items for the collection is account bound, that’s not a problem: account bound items can be obtained on any character and transferred to any character through the account vault.

Wait until details.

Mawdrey is a good example of what you’d end up doing. The scavenger hunt items as well as the LS rewards were account bound and can be transferred to any character for crafting (although that was largely through the mystic forge, but still).