Guild Wars 2

I bought a piece of armor from a Karma merchant the other day due to a bug.
I was previewing all the armors (Light, Medium, and Heavy) on my elementalist.
When I right clicked “Preview” was the only option that appears.
Which means when you Left click the only thing that SHOULD be able to be done is preview, not purchase correct? It didn’t have Purchase or Buy as a option.
So I clicked it hoping to preview the Medium armor BUT instead I purchased a piece of it.
I have one character that’s level 80, I got 100% map completion on that character (elementalist).

None of the other characters are passed level 10 – ALSO the item is SOULBOUND
I have a medium armor that isn’t refundable and soul bound to my elementalist.

I find this to be a bug.

You shouldn’t be able to purchase a soul bound item you aren’t able to use.

Yeah… turns out you are.

I’ve ended up with a piece of armour of the wrong type I can’t sell or salvage. Not sure what I’m supposed to do with it.

I know, they should have an exchange system as long as you haven’t equipped it. Or something of that nature.

I have had this dicussion in the recent past with my guildies. It absolutley baffles us why anyone in their right mind would design a game witha merchant than can sell you souldbound, nonrefundable, equipment that you cannot use. I am dumbfounded on the notion that you can blow 40+k karma and hundreds of hours of farming with an honest mis-click. That is absolutely cruel. The armor and weapons, ect. that you cannot use should be greyed out and disabled OR they should not soulbind the purchases from the Karma Vendor. This is poorly thought out IMHO and as soon as more people start getting to the higher levels and mistakenly clicking on the wrong armor piece in that tiny little Karma Window, Anet is going to have some very unhappy players. I am a software designer myself and work with customers who “like to click buttons”. We conveniently put fail safe coding into our apps and programs so no mistakes can be made. Cause in the end, even if they hit the wrong buttons, we are the ones who have to deal with the complaining and ultimately, a great deal of the consequences.

When I went to post this I thought I was the only one who had a problem with that. the system is quite flawed.

I can understand why they’re bound – karma items aren’t supposed to be tradeable – but if they were account bound instead of soulbound, I could at least use the armour piece on another character. As it is right now, I’ve ended up with an expensive, non-refundable, waste of inventory space.

I know why the karma is bound, but in the same sense why would one be able to buy something they cannot use?