Guild Wars 2

I have looked around on the net and have found conflicting views on this topic.

The question is as follows:

If I have an item with appearance A and this item IS soul-bound, and I transmute appearance A to item B and its stats, and item B is NOT soul-bound, will item B become soul-bound?

Any Help is appreciated!

Kaii.5149:

It has been fixed, and yes it is always the case.

Actually, I did this an hour ago on a level 80 Mystic Sword. I also plan on doing it with my Sunrise when I get it next week.

Say you have a mystic sword on a mesmer you want on a guardian (My case) what you do is use a fine trans. stone (on the mesmer) and copy the skin (only) onto a low level white item , typically bought from the TP for about 2s. Now the mesmer would have a white sword with the desired skin on it. (The weapon will still say soulbound). Put the sword into the bank and go on the character you would like it on. Even though the weapon is soulbound, now that it is on the white item, you will be able to retrieve it and use another stone to put that skin onto the weapon you would like it on. Then equip it and voila, you have your new weapons skin

This can also be done with armor

Yes, transmuting any item that is soul bound with another item, whether that other item is soul bound or not, will create a soul bound item.

Is this always the case? As well as thanks for the assist!

it used to read soulbound but you could still pull it out of storage on another character and transmuted again. I’ve heard this is fixed now. Might have to transmuted something cheap and soulbound just to test it.

It has been fixed, and yes it is always the case.

Editing in response to below: I know for a fact that this was patched at one point, I’m logging in now to confirm that it is working.

Well, looks like I was wrong after all. As I stated a minute ago in my edit to my previous post, I just logged in and tested this on a corrupted avenger greatsword and it worked.

I’m honestly very confused by the fact that it worked, but regardless it did work. Whether or not it is supposed to be working this way again is debatable but I apologize for providing incorrect information.

Ah, thanks for all the response, this is good news :p