Guild Wars 2

Just bought a Whisperer’s Secret Staff on my alt, to be used on my main. However, it was soulbound on acquire.

No problem I thought, I can just transfer the skin to a non-soul bound staff and then use it on my main.

However, the staff I transferred the skin to also immediately became souldbound. Unlike in the past, where you could transfer the starter headgear items to different skins.

Seeing as how this bug just cost me 5 gold + a fine transmutation stone + 3 gold for an exotic staff, I was wondering if there was:

a) a way to fix this so I can still use the staff.
b) the possibility to warn players for this in the future, and to make it so that professions cannot buy weapons they cannot use (in this case, a staff soulbound to an engineer)
c) a refund of the gold I’ve spent.

I know c isn’t an option, and a will be a longshot. However, if b could be implemented, I’d be happy with that.

And on a side note, why not remove sould bound altogether and replace it with account bound?

Ok, so I just did the same trick with the elementalist starter headgear…it became account bound, not sould bound.

ArenaNet, if you could fix this bug for me somehow, then I’d be much obliged.

EDIT: Managed to get it account bound. The key to it is to transfer the skin onto a white item. It will become account bound instead of soulbound. However, given the nature of this issue, I strongly recommend that some fix for this will be implemented in the future. Also, moderator, please move this to bug reports.

ThiBash.5634:

Ok, so I just did the same trick with the elementalist starter headgear…it became account bound, not sould bound.

Transferring a skin to a white or blue, non-bound item always was the key to transmuting starting gear to another character’s gear. It never worked if you directly transmuted to a green, yellow or orange item. Just do the final transmutation to the exotic item on the character on which you want to use the skin. So the full process takes 2 transmutation stones.
If anything could be qualified as being a bug, it would be that it is at all possible to transfer skins from starting gear or order gear to another character / someone not in that order. I think it was never intended that this is possible at all.

If you want to try if you can still fix your skin in the current situation, you’re stuck with sacrificing the exotic on which you put the skin, and using more transmutation stones. First transmute the skin to a low-level white staff. Put that staff in the bank. Log to your other character. Pick up the staff (should be able to, even if it says it’s soulbound). Then transmute the skin to an exotic with the desired stats.

Thanks for your advice (bit late, I know). This is a serious issue though…why do the order weapons armor cost so much, and yet offer so little for it? They’re not exotic. They’re not account bound. They’re a pain to transfer? And why? Who would get hurt by the proces?

I agree, either they need to be cheaper or they shouldn’t be soulbound, or they should just be exotic, any of these would be good.