Guild Wars 2

So as some of you may or may not know, soulbound armour can only be equipped by the soulbounder.

But did you also realise it can only be salvaged by the soulbounder even if that character is deleted?

I have 6 draconic armour pieces from an old character with Superior Divinity Runes that I was saving for when I had a Black Lion salvage kit except, It is now immune to account bound changes. When you delete a character this effect is not mentioned.

Personally to me this is either a bug or poorly worded in the deletion screen. I am hoping this thread raises the issue and helps others not to waste expensive runes like I have.

I haven’t tried this myself, yet, so I do not know if it will work this way. But if you remember the exact name of the character that those items were soulbound to that you deleted, have you tried to create a new character with the exact same name once again to see if those items can be taken from your bank and salvaged? I’m not certain of how the soulbound function works to where items are bound to the name of a character or to another aspect or ID for the character.

I will try this out to see if it behaves this way as a possible way for items in the bank that are soulbound to a deleted character to once again be usable by a newly created character of the same name as the deleted character they were soulbound to.

Nope renaming a new character does not rebind.