Guild Wars 2

It’s happened to me twice today. First I bought a nice MF trinket at almost 7G, Vallog’s Demise, upgraded it with an exquisite opal jewel, realized I didn’t need it and then couldn’t relist it, can’t place it in the guild bank either. I never wore it, and it has not yet been soulbound, so I should be able to resell it. It would be nice if this could be fixed so I could reclaim some of that gold.

This evening, I crafted a level 10 malign crude staff for a guildy starting a new necro toon, upgraded it with a pebble (The condition damage one). I couldn’t mail the item to him and, like the above trinket, couldn’t even place it in the guild bank. I had to craft another for him, send him the items and let him apply the upgrade himself.

It seems upgrading an item mistakingly binds the item to the player, even if it has not yet been soulbound and even if the items do not soulbind, such as a level 10 staff.

It’s not a mistake – upgrading an item soul-binds it to the person applying the upgrade. There is a warning stating that this will happen when you apply an upgrade (it’s in that pop-up message that makes you confirm you want to apply it).

The exception to this is account-bound gear will stay account bound. Everything else becomes soulbound.

This is by design. You even get a warning before upgrading that the item will be bound.

(edit conflict – soz for double posting the same info)

OK, I can’t read…been one of those days. Sorry, please delete.