I want to be able to switch the tools between my characters freely rather than having these tools soulbound on one character that i may or may not get tired of
I agree, I hate the idea of soulbound items…ESPECIALLY on utility items such as harvesting tools and high end items such as exotics-legendaries. Making things account bound will not flood the market with items and shouldn’t greatly affect the market at all. This is a big part of the reason I’ve never bothered with doing alts…I’m just not going to spend that kind of gold again. I salvaged an entire set of Jatoro’s armor after the MF change just because it was useless to me. Had I been able to move it to a new character, knowing a full set of exotic gear (Trinkets and all) was waiting as a level 80 reward (Huge incentive there), I would have kept it and probably started to level a new alt.
There’s also no reason to make crafting supplies such as bloodstone dust and certain food items soul bound OR account bound…really…why are some food items account bound and others not.
Agree 100%. This is the reason I never bought the special gathering items. I would gladly spend 1500 gems per tool if ALL my toons can use them, but not 800 per tool, per toon.
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Anything you pay gems for would be nice to atleast be account bound and while I wouldn’t give a kitten if soul bound took a hike I doubt that will happen and would instead settle for an item able to be purchased NOT for GEMS that can remove the bound state so it can be sold, gifted, or traded and for that matter arena net put in trading or would the entire economy collapse if people were able to avoid the trading post taxes if they wanted without fear of being scammed.
Unlimited Gathering items are Account-Bound now. Which is great.
Removing Soulbound from the game is a bad idea from a marketing standpoint. Sure, some people will play more if they could reuse old gear sets, but I think that number is very small compared to the amount of people who don’t care. At that point, why not just let you swap your profession/race once you hit 80 at any time?
Why is soul bound even a thing? The armor I get for my guardian is based around my guardians traits. It will rarely transition well to other classes and even if it did, I don’t see the problem since I have to trade armor back and forth. I’m not one to have similar play styles on different classes (ex: p/p unload thief and a power life blast spamming necro) so I would have put armor on all my classes either way.
Karma gear is also soul bound and I don’t understand why. My friend almost quit the game when he grinded karma and in his haste bought a set of armor only to realize it’s soul bound. The only benefit I see to karma armor being soul bound is it will force people to explore areas they already traversed extensively in under powered gear to create the illusion that people actually play in those areas.
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The only benefit I see to karma armor being soul bound is it will force people to explore areas they already traversed extensively in under powered gear to create the illusion that people actually play in those areas.
This right here is why Soulbound is a thing. It’s a gimmick to get people to play more. Though it’s normally a sub-based game thing, so people keep paying to keep playing to do the same stuff. Since ANet doesn’t actually benefit from people playing every month, I don’t see why they need subscription based gimmicks.
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The only benefit I see to karma armor being soul bound is it will force people to explore areas they already traversed extensively in under powered gear to create the illusion that people actually play in those areas.
This right here is why Soulbound is a thing. It’s a gimmick to get people to play more. Though it’s normally a sub-based game thing, so people keep paying to keep playing to do the same stuff. Since ANet doesn’t actually benefit from people playing every month, I don’t see why they need subscription based gimmicks.
So the game looks busy and people go “there’s lots of people playing” and then they can brag to gaming blogs about login’s….
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Ascended and Legendary gear should be account bound instead of soul bound at the very least.
If it really is a ploy to get people playing more then it works but it also may infuriate them to stop playing all together.
A person buys gw2, gets a char to 80 and wants to do some healing so he gets clerics gear. He soon finds out clerics was the wrong choice because of stat imbalances and quits gw2.
I think that’s a bit excessive. If people quit so many casual things because of a wrong choice, then no one would ever do anything. Personally, I like how the Soulbound system works. Even though I have moments of “kitten , I wish I could do [X], and I could if Soulbind didn’t exist”, I do think it’s nessecary. Items typically only soulbind when you use them anyways.
i see ppl liking the soul bound status but for what reason?
it only bothers us and doesn’t have any added value, it’s actually one of the reasons why i think this game fails in what Anet claims.
Lol