Guild Wars 2

From the “Looking Ahead: Guild Wars 2 in 2013” post:

“This new tier of crafting material, along with the new guaranteed material rewards mentioned earlier and some other materials we’ll introduce will be used to craft ascended weapons, armor, and more. These weapons and armor will also be able to be found as rare drops from locations in the world. Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.”

First, is the new Celestial Armor considered ascended armor (if not, then why would I bother working on Celestial gear when they are going to be coming out with Ascended gear soon?)?

Is it account-bound? Is there any way to screw up and make it soul-bound? I have avoided getting any ascended trinkets because I was worried about making them soulbound.

Are current Legendaries account-bound (I thought they were soulbound on equip)?

Final question that hopefully an ArenaNet staffer could answer: will you eventually just do away with soulbound entirely? Because as a player of GW1 from almost the beginning, I was HUGELY disappointed with the soulbound system, and I would love to see it eliminated. I have not spent any gems on armor and I refuse to until soulbind is removed from the game. I want to see GW2 improve and this is one area that I see as a major black spot. Or will it be that Ascended/Legendary gear will be the account-bound as a reward for the investment in it?

Thank you.

>First, is the new Celestial Armor considered ascended armor (if not, then why would I bother working on Celestial gear when they are going to be coming out with Ascended gear soon?)?

Celestial isn’t an upgrade it is just another stat combination that A.Net added to the game and it is not considered to be ascended armor.

Thanks for answering that. Another question I forgot it, I thought I read somewhere that Celestial armor is account-bound, is that incorrect?

It’s account bound until you equip it. Once you equip it, it is soulbound.

No it is correct

Imperator.3475:

Thanks for answering that. Another question I forgot it, I thought I read somewhere that Celestial armor is account-bound, is that incorrect?

That is correct. You’ll be unable to sell it or buy it on the trading post. Since it’s account bound the only way to get it is to craft it yourself.

Wait, is it account-bound until equipped, or permanently account-bound?