Guild Wars 2

I ventured into WvW last nite and ended up with a bunch of Proofs of Heroics, but when I tried to give them to another character on my account, I discovered they are soul bound. When did that change?

The character I have them on cannot use them as she already has maxed out their use for her points, except to purchase the equipment for use in the WvW area. I never use those things and was surprised to see this no longer account bound.

I have a couple of other characters that can use those tokens for points but am upset they cannot be transferred to them.

This was always the original intent, what you are referring to was a bug that was fixed a little while ago. But dont worry with the upcoming wvw patch, proofs will officially become account bound and should be put into the account wallet.

Changed about month after HoT release last year I believe.

@XTD: thanks for that info..I’ll hold onto them for now then.

@Jayne: I guess I don’t WvW enough since this came as a surprise….I remember swapping some to one of my other toons before. So I can wait it out with the notice of the changes.

X T D.6458:

This was always the original intent, what you are referring to was a bug that was fixed a little while ago. But dont worry with the upcoming wvw patch, proofs will officially become account bound and should be put into the account wallet.

Just thought of something. Over a year ago I remember something switching out from SB to AB, can’t remember what it was exactly, but a few of them still left in my inventory stayed SB even after the change. I was forced to use them on the character I had them on instead of being able to give them to another.

Hope they don’t put that type of filter on the old vs the new ones.

lynspottery.6529:

X T D.6458:

This was always the original intent, what you are referring to was a bug that was fixed a little while ago. But dont worry with the upcoming wvw patch, proofs will officially become account bound and should be put into the account wallet.

Just thought of something. Over a year ago I remember something switching out from SB to AB, can’t remember what it was exactly, but a few of them still left in my inventory stayed SB even after the change. I was forced to use them on the character I had them on instead of being able to give them to another.

Hope they don’t put that type of filter on the old vs the new ones.

It could be a number of things, there has been a shift towards more account binding rather then soulbinding, thankfully, because I have always hated soulbinding personally.

I’m pretty sure the Heroics were always soul bound. Initially the chests were account bound so you could move them between toons. Then ANet made the chests soul bound.

lujate.5432:

I’m pretty sure the Heroics were always soul bound. Initially the chests were account bound so you could move them between toons. Then ANet made the chests soul bound.

Yep, that was the bug, each chest was intended to be soulbound. So now if you get a rankup chest on one toon, it cant be opened by another. Not sure if that will be changed as well.

I’m not a fan of soul bound either any more than I am a fan of skins being only usable on the character that matches its original light/med/heavy designation.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Proof-of-Heroics-will-become-account-bound

mcarswell.3768:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Proof-of-Heroics-will-become-account-bound

Ah well, you know the saying “it was right before my eyes, and still I did not see it” comment. I did a search but the search function on the forums don’t work well, if at all.

I supposed I should have googled it…might have found that thread before posting mine.

lujate.5432:

I’m pretty sure the Heroics were always soul bound. Initially the chests were account bound so you could move them between toons. Then ANet made the chests soul bound.

Chests were account bound, proofs souldbound. However if you left them in your bank and moved alt to the vendor you could spend them straight from the bank. They fixed that like a month after HoT release.