Guild Wars 2

On April 15th, ascended gear (including armor) becomes account bound.

Can exotic as well?

Here is why. WvW players often have 3-4 sets of armor for different builds. It is often the same armor as their next character. For example, I play 3 medium armor classes.

If I don’t have ascended armor, then each character carries around berserker, dire, etc. etc. It just takes up room and bank space.

Account bound would be much easier!

Replace all soul bound with account bound. Soul bound is only an inconvenient annoyance without any advantage.

But probably this is the wrong forum, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2 would be better.

Wrong forum. BUT HELLSYES it should be.

Give them an inch and they will take a mile.

It should be of course, for competition’s sake.

(this has been said since 2012)

exotics are super cheap and don’t require weeks and months of time gating to craft. No real point in account bounding them.

Julie Yann.5379:

exotics are super cheap and don’t require weeks and months of time gating to craft. No real point in account bounding them.

Yes that’s why I said soulbound is only annoyance, without any economical meaning.

There’s no reason to accountbind Exotics. A new set+weapons+jewels is what, like 50g? That’s nothing.

Fermi.2409:

There’s no reason to accountbind Exotics. A new set+weapons+jewels is what, like 50g? That’s nothing.

Yeah that’s why it doesn’t make any economical sense to keep the category soulbound. Soulbound items are so unhandy, e.g. you cannot take them out of bank (e.g. to dish it) with the wrong char, if it is in the bank and the char is deleted you can only destroy the item (neither dish nor sell it to NPC). Stuff soulbound to different chars do not stack together, …

The highlight in anoyance are soul-bound items (e.g. karma-bottles) that increase account bound balances (karma)