Guild Wars 2

Everything relating to Ascended gear should not be soulbound or account bound until you upgrade it, and binding on upgrade is only because the only other alternative is for the TP to have multiple listings for every Ascended item, one for every possible upgrade. Including all the stupid choices.

By everything I mean everything. From every ingredient use to make Ascended gear and infusions all the way up to the items themselves. If ANET doesn’t want to make items purchased with skill points tradeable, then make Fractal Relics tradeable and we can buy skill points through them.

This should do a few things:
– Allow people who don’t enjoy FOTM to acquire Ascended items via other means of their choice.
– Reduce the grind to acquire them, as people will farm them to sell.
– Even out the population across FOTM and any future sources of Ascended items by making the highly populated sources less profitable.
– If ANET does this while reducing and coin faucets of FOTM, it might even breathe life into areas depopulated by FOTM because people want the coin.

Ascended items will still be effectively bind on equip, as people will be upgrading them with infusions.

Well in theory they promised to add a kind of ascend gear to all kind of gameplay. After all top stats gear should always be available many ways.

If we can believe that promise considering it comes from Anet or not is the problem really.

Another advantage to making stuff tradeable: It means that, even if the item is a RNG drop, every run you make is still some measurable progress towards acquiring the item.

With the item being bind on pickup and RNG, if the run doesn’t drop the item, then the run hasn’t made you any progress. At most you make it to a higher level of FOTM, and you have your drop rate go up by an unknown amount.