Guild Wars 2

I had 9 exotic weapons crafted as a valentine’s present for my girlfriend. I then proceeded to apply 20g worth of runes to the weapons. The idea being that I could mail them to her all fully set up.

Now the weapons -all 9 of them that my profession cannot use are soulbound to me. The weapons still say soulbound on use -so they aren’t “soulbound” but adding the sigils still made them soulbound to me.

I don’t think it should work this way -why can weapons that you can’t use be soulbound to you?

Not only that, some crafting (amulet to be exact) are already soulbound as soon as they appeared in the inventory….even if you don’t need them and didn’t equiped them….hence useless to craft since you cannot do anything with them but destroy them.

Because you can only list the unchanged variant on the TP, and if they weren’t soulbound after applying the rune / sigil, you’d be able to sell modified versions of the items.

Also, note that when you add a rune / sigil to an item, you get a pop up saying explicitly “this action will make the item soulbound to you.” You had to click to proceed from that screen, so there’s really no one to blame but yourself.

Silvery Shadow.5036:

Not only that, some crafting (amulet to be exact) are already soulbound as soon as they appeared in the inventory….even if you don’t need them and didn’t equiped them….hence useless to craft since you cannot do anything with them but destroy them.

Crafted jewelry is Soulbound on Use, not Soulbound. You can verify this by searching for them on the TP.

I still think it’s a poor system if it allows you to use two expensive items to create an item that cannot be used. I can’t think of another game that does that and I do not think it was the designer’s intent.

I checked each item after applying each sigil. They still say soul bound on use: if it had changed to Soulbound then I would have stopped at the first weapon.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Crafted jewelry is Soulbound on Use, not Soulbound. You can verify this by searching for them on the TP.

There are a few things that jewelcrafters can make that are soulbound on acquire, however it states in their description and they are non-canon crafts requiring recipes from karma/event vendors.

Rain King.5914:

I checked each item after applying each sigil. They still say soul bound on use: if it had changed to Soulbound then I would have stopped at the first weapon.

I would have stopped by the words “this action will make the item soulbound to you.”
They are clearly enough.

Rain King.5914:

I still think it’s a poor system if it allows you to use two expensive items to create an item that cannot be used. I can’t think of another game that does that and I do not think it was the designer’s intent.

I checked each item after applying each sigil. They still say soul bound on use: if it had changed to Soulbound then I would have stopped at the first weapon.

I can! It’s called Guild Wars 1, customizing a weapon does the equivalent of soulbinding. Armor was always bound on acquire(from a NPC crafter).

Khisanth.2948:

Rain King.5914:

I still think it’s a poor system if it allows you to use two expensive items to create an item that cannot be used. I can’t think of another game that does that and I do not think it was the designer’s intent.

I checked each item after applying each sigil. They still say soul bound on use: if it had changed to Soulbound then I would have stopped at the first weapon.

I can! It’s called Guild Wars 1, customizing a weapon does the equivalent of soulbinding. Armor was always bound on acquire(from a NPC crafter).

These are not the same things. It would be the same if adding a an upgrade like an icy bowstring to a bow made the item customized to the character that did the upgrade. I could make weapons all day in guild wars 1, and as long as I did not equip it, I could give it to another character.

Most replies are focusing on my mistake of not reading the prompt when there are two “bugs” at issue that could be improved on to make the game better.

1. weapons do not upgrade to soulbound after adding a sigil. They still say soulbound on use.

2. I’m not sure if this is a bug but I don’t think this is working as intended: weapons that your profession cannot use should not soulbind to your character (what would be the purpose of this feature?)

I’m not sure what the fix should be for this as the soulbind system is supposed to keep modified items off of the trading post. Maybe don’t allow upgrades to occur on weapons you can’t use? Don’t soulbind upgraded weapons but instead make the trading post check the weapon for an upgrade first -if it has one then it can’t be listed?