Guild Wars 2

Hi, I just completed FOTM lvl 18 on my elementalist, The Presence.

During the 3rd phase I got an exotic from a chest. Only one huge problem. Its a bow (so I cant even use it) but even worse—— its accountbound! I cant even sell this thing?!?! Clearly this must be some sort of bug. Any chance I can get the item replaced with a proper version or random drop, because this really ruins that “oh wow an exotic” moment.

Upon even more investigation it would appear that its pretty likely this bug is on all tribal weapons outside of carrion— as its the only tribal set that I even see listed on the AH.

-note edited the problem. Item isnt soulbound, its actually account bound. I dont understand why.

As far as I know that is just how it is with exotic drops in FOTM. That is just from people complaining about it in other sections of the forum. Not like I ever get exotic drops.

I was told it was a bug by several that they never bothered to fix. Another person told me that the exotics dropped in chests are pretty much karma skins, they just wanted people to have another way to get them besides karma. Im starting to believe that is the case. If so—- I do applaud giving people more than one way to get karma gear— but it should be with fractal drop turn ins that grant karma. I mean come on—- karma is by far and away the single easiest to farm currency in the game. Most players have thousands of it, if not hundreds of thousands of it—- and nothing to spend it on anymore at this point. So at the very least— this stuff should be turned into regular drops. Its not like it drops that often and it really cheapens the excitement of finding an exotic.

Its not a bug, all exotic weapons that drop out of the chests in FotM are account bound, any exotic that drops from an enemy you can sell as normal, its on the forums if you search for it.

I did some searching but didn’t find what I was looking for beyond player speculation. I’ve been lucky in that all of my exotic drops so far I suppose have been from mobs in there, so to find one that was different was very weird for me. Thank you for your reply all the same.