Guild Wars 2

Yesterday I was doing the burning corpses event in southern Cursed Shore http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Burn_the_scattered_Pact_corpses_to_honor_the_fallen when I found a strange drop from one of the risen maggots that spawn during the event. It was a “Shell of Secrets”; an account bound item that I could double click on to choose a reward. It gave me the option of three rares with different stat combinations, but these were level 51 rares.

I wondered whether this was intentional, as it seemed very odd that a level 51 account bound item would drop in a level 80 zone. Then I wondered if it might have been Personal Story loot that was accidentally dropping in a real world zone. Has anyone else encountered one of these?

It is one of the new “Alt Loot” items, a variety of low-level gear up to Rare quality that is account bound and designed to be given to alts to help them during the journey to level 80. Of course, if you have no plans to create more alts, these items won’t really help you.

If this is your situation, I’d just sell it. Word is that these items can be forged too.