Guild Wars 2

I would like to suggest making a number of available gear account bound rather than soul bound, this would allow us to give alts gear that our mains used to use at their level.

I was also thinking that due to the requirements of dungeon gear and other exotic gear, it should be account bound so that we can use it on an alt (that meets the level req of course) when we don’t need it/don’t use it on our mains. This will reduce the pain of the internal battle of “salvage vs horde” when deciding what to do with old gear.

I think this should also apply to quest items (not story, more like the Halloween stuff), I personally don’t want to run the quests 4 times to get the same item for 4 characters, instead why not just allow for it to be used account wide (the first book you get is useless after Act 2, so it could go to an alt so it isn’t wasted).

Just my two-cents, I think that it would benefit players when making alts.

Cheers.

I do get upset that some items (particularly items bought for karma) are not only soulbound, but they can’t even be sold or salvaged when you level out of them.

I completely agree, and it’s especially weird with the halloween toys (eg the toilet paper)- I mean, why couldn’t you be able to use some other character’s TP roll or tonics? Also I buy my tools with money 90% of the time anyway so why can’t I transfer them between two characters who meet the lvl requirement? Having to destroy extras my alt could use brings a single tear in my eye every time.

kateuk.7538:

I do get upset that some items (particularly items bought for karma) are not only soulbound, but they can’t even be sold or salvaged when you level out of them.

I can kinda see the logic behing the karma stuff restrictions, they don’t wanna give us a karma>money loop, at least not an apparent one. You can always mystic forge the item along with 3 others, but it can end up with yet another karma item ( I even got a karma item from 4 non-karmas).

They already give us a Karma → Money loop, by allowing us to buy Salvaging/Gathering Tools with Karma at Renown Heart vendors.

So the point is rather moot.

I really would like to be able to pass gathering tools on to alts, especially when I have loads I can’t use as rewards from whatever, and they just take up bag space. I hate having to destroy this stuff.

You should be able to salvage Tools into metal

Just a quick note:
Horde = bunch of soldiers.
Hoard = collect alot of items.

I’m pretty sure the soulbound over account bound on many items is intentionally a money sink. The more stuff they can pull out of the economy the more stable it stays. Still makes me qq a little bit to destroy the Master Steel level harvesting sickles that my main received when he was 80. (Obviously not enough to just not destroy them, but you know…)