Guild Wars 2

I got this ring, Cleric’s Ring, in TA earlier today, and a friend sent me the knight jewel to put in it, to try and get its value up.

As you can see in the picture attached, it is supposedly soulbound on use, and I have not used it, and yet it cannot be sent, sold or placed in the guild chest, acting as if it is soulbound.

Is this a bug, or how things are meant to be?

EDIT: Image didnt show tooltips, but suffice to say it says soulbound on use

Adding an amelioration like a jewel/rune/sigil/… always binds the object to the soul.

A pop-up warns you that the item will become soulbound before you apply an upgrade. At that point, you have a choice of backing out of the process or ignore the warning. You probably did the latter.

true, then it is still a bug that it says soulbound on use, and asks again when you equip if you want to soulbind it

Rurik Telmonkin.3648:

true, then it is still a bug that it says soulbound on use, and asks again when you equip if you want to soulbind it

When applying upgrades to items, the resulting item is actually just Account bound, even tough the popup window wrongly mentions the item becoming Soulbound in the process. This requires a fix. Also, the Account bound status isn’t mentioned at the bottom of the item stats as it should.

That said, the item is still Soulbound on use (by design), and also Account Bound (due to the upgrade applied): the item can’t leave your account (can’t trade it or mail it), but you can still move it to other characters until you equip it.

Once you do, the item becomes permanently Soulbound to that character, so the popup warning on equip still makes a lot of sense.