Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I have one primary question:

If an item is soulbound, and you delete and re-create the character to which the item is bound, will the soulbound item be equippable by that new character?

I am a roleplayer and normally stick to one character. I also normally stick to one character name.

I have decided that my character’s personality is more nornlike than human. There are also some gameplay characteristics of human characters that annoy me.

I am trying to weigh the pros and cons of deleting and re-creating this character.

I will gain:
The race that I prefer
The gameplay characteristics I prefer
The character name I continue to prefer

I will lose:
Priory Armor (Soulbound)
Mystic Claymore (Soulbound)
A nice staff (Soulbound)
220,000 Karma (I can live with that, as I’ve been saving karma jugs for a rainy day)
…I’m not sure what else I will lose. Anything that’s soulbound, basically?

Anyway this is a fairly heavy price to pay, so I’m trying to be really careful before deciding. It all kinda hinges on the question above. My first thought was to suggest Reincarnation: A character retains its name, returns to level 1, returns to the character creation screen including race, the character name is pre-filled, and inventory is not touched. This would allow the character to keep the stuff I just mentioned. Realizing that there are some technical issues with making this work, I had to move on.

I’m pretty sure that you will not be able to use that item ever otherwise the whole soulbound system could be undermined by simply deleting a toon.

It won’t be equipable by your new character.
I understand about the roleplaying part. If your main thing to do in the game is roleplaying, go for it. Otherwise, you could always say that your human was raised by a Norn family.

Use the transmutation stone trick, which will allow you to keep the skins but not the stats of your gear.