Guild Wars 2

Dunno if this is a actual bug or some intended game change, but here goes…

Ok, so starting out, gathering tools were NOT soulbound. Recently they became so. I understand account bound, but when you make alts and have leftover tools, it’s nice to pass them on. Currently, salvage kits are NOT soulbound. Is that changing as well?

Secondly, karma recipes were NOT soulbound, and now they are. This really seems nuts, as once I find a recipe, I then have to get an alt to that point, do the heart quest and get the recipe. Again, I understand the need for account binding these things, but to make them soulbound seems like making busywork for players.

Finally, there was no communication as to these changes. IMHO, if Anet makes a restriction to an item, it should be in notes when you login. If these are bugs, hopefully they get fixed.

The interesting part about salvage kits is that I had a few starting characters with salvage kits. I stored them to bank and deleted the characters and those salvage kits are not transferrable. It said they are account bound but didn’t actually allow any of my characters to remove them from bank, so I ended up deleting them.

I tested with existing characters and I could transfer the salvage kits between characters. Though I’m not sure if this is actually caused by character deletion or if those salvage kits were so old (a few days old) that something had changed in the binding mechanism.

Kinda weird on the salvage kits. I just checked and all mine are transferable. I’m betting since you deleted a character, it screwed with the item status. Another bug.