Guild Wars 2

I just started playing again recently after many months, I came back when the Super Dress Up Mai Anime Waifu Wardrobe function was added a week ago. There are a few things I’ve noticed I need answers to

1) I noticed some of my equipment seem to be account bound now, but then other stuff isn’t, it is still soulbound. Why is this? Are they all supposed to be account bound? Or soulbond? What is this? what’s the requirements?

2) In the old transmutation system I would just use worthless lvl 79 transmutation stones to make my characters who didnt have level 80 equips look good, but I can’t seem to do that now in this new transmutation system, changing my kittenty level 50 armour now costs precious transmutation charges that is used for ALL equipment. So is there a way to make the crappy armour look different without using the charges or do I have to suck it up till I get to level 80 and get equips that don’t suck?

3) Is SAB coming back soon?? I have a bunch of tokens for making the green weapons but I stopped playing before I got to use them, and I have an infinite continue coin rotting away.

4) I have noticed that when I am harvesting nodes, when I get attacked by anything, my ore/wood/whatever will come out as the ruined stuff even though I am using the right tool! it feels really arbitrary too. I will be mining mythril and the first mine comes out as a regular mythril ore, but when i get attacked by something, the other two remaining mines come out as ruined ore! is this a bug? i don’t recall this ever happening before

edit: 5) Are any of those old town clothes items ever coming back? it would be a shame if they didn’t, anet would probably make a lot of money on them

1) Only ascended equipement became account bound, the rest remains as they were.
2) Using charges is the only way but on the other hand getting charges is much easier than getting transmutation crystals. Even though they cost the same you shouldn’t regard them as the same.
3) Only ANet knows the answer and they haven’t said anything.
4) That happens if you have certain traits equipped. Warrior’s Last Stand and Guardian’s Shattered Aegis are two examples but there are others as well.
5) I think you’ve answered yourself already.

Khisanth is right on all counts but I just wanted to expand on a couple of points.

1) Legendaries are account bound as well now.

2) Everything that used to award transmutation stones now awards a charge. You’re guaranteed to get one from completely exploring a city and might get one from exploring other maps or daily and monthly achievements, black lion chests and PvP rewards. Maybe some other places too.

So if you want them and don’t want to pay for them just make a new character and run them around the cities, do all 6 and you’ve got enough charges for a full set of armor.

(Although if you’re anything like most players who didn’t delete all their transmutation stones you’ve probably got a lot already. I had 1 crystal before the update, I now have 40 charges and that’s not counting the ones I’ve used.)

5) They re-released the Wintersday outfit and now the Executioners outfit has replaced it. I assume the others will come back too, but they’re releasing them gradually (probably because it builds hype and allows people who want all of them to spread the cost out, which makes it more likely they’ll buy more).

The ones that were turned into tonics probably won’t come back, but you can buy them on the trading post.

Thanks you guys, really helpful! I do have a followup question on #1 though, I notice that indeed ascended stuff are account bound now, but also some of my exotics are account bound too instead of Soulbound. Like my Scepter and Shield from twilight arbour are account bound even though they are exotic. Is that normal?

I can add another comment on #5.

Town clothes you were wearing before the wardrobe patch is still in your possession. Talk to the Black Lion Armorer NPC at your local Trade Post and they’ll convert it to tonics.

(Regular starting town clothes become a tonic with infinite uses. Most Gemstore townclothes headgear, however, become actual armor skins you can unlock. Like the Sailor’s Beanie or the Alchemist’s Sunglasses.)

Kiriwar.7382:

Thanks you guys, really helpful! I do have a followup question on #1 though, I notice that indeed ascended stuff are account bound now, but also some of my exotics are account bound too instead of Soulbound. Like my Scepter and Shield from twilight arbour are account bound even though they are exotic. Is that normal?

They made all the TA stuff account bound a while ago. I think around the same time as Twilight Assault. No mention of it in the patch note so also no mention of why but they just did it.