Pact Box: Soul-bound on acquire. Why?

Pact Box: Soul-bound on acquire. Why?

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Posted by: RustyMech.9876

RustyMech.9876

So I made one of these boxes on my alt in hopes to use it on my main. The catch is that it’s soul-bound on acquire, which makes no sense. There are several items like this that could very easily be account-bound, alchemy potions anyone? Certain foods, legendary weapons, ascended equipment…. all account-bound. Please explain to me how this makes sense.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

For the recipe I’m going to guess so that the market to buy it is kept high. One recipe per alt versus one per account. This way the merchant has “more things” to sell you. It’s also a way to turn karma into gold by selling the karma recipe on the trading post (unless that turns out to be a bug).

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: RustyMech.9876

RustyMech.9876

If that is what they were aiming for, they should have just sold a specific item for karma that you can throw in the mystic forge with a normal bag/box. It would retain value, and not force people to level a craft in which they already have on another character (Maybe that is what their goal was with this).

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Posted by: Khisanth.2948

Khisanth.2948

For the recipe I’m going to guess so that the market to buy it is kept high. One recipe per alt versus one per account. This way the merchant has “more things” to sell you. It’s also a way to turn karma into gold by selling the karma recipe on the trading post (unless that turns out to be a bug).

The only thing this accomplish is to make whoever buys it without checking the end result first feel like an idiot afterwards. Who is going to level all their alts to 400 just to craft this? At current prices that means you have make around 30 of these before you start coming out ahead but a character can only have 8 bag slots. For this to work out the price of ori has to skyrocket while the cured harden leather and gossamer has to take a nosedive.

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Posted by: Ven Zehn.6573

Ven Zehn.6573

Yea this is rather silly, only your chars with armor crafts of some sort will be able to make and use them.

Probably just an oversight, hopefully…