Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, not sure why this is happening now, but gathering tools have suddenly become a soulbound item, not allowing you to mail them to other players. These seems a bit out there in terms of what should and shouldn’t be soulbound.

well I actually think its a VERY good way to prevent newbies to have access to high level gathering items then simply jumping into WvW and getting high value mats right from the start

But the tools have required levels anyway, and the ones that don’t and CAN harvest high value mats (Black Lion tools) are meant to be used by anyone.

except you can buy the high level tools in any home city at the crafting vendors and you can still move gold…

I have no issues with this but can we please make them sellable even at quarter price? I purchased a bunch of iron stuff and found that I went past that so I had to just destroy them for bag space.

A lot of things are ‘suddenly soulbound’, like at least half of the crafting recipes that let you buy them on one character with no mention whatsoever of being ‘soulbound’ til you put them in the bank and try to retrieve them on another character. Only then do they say ‘Soulbound to another character’. Talk about wasting my Karma on trial and error.

I prefer them to be either account bound so when I out level a set I can send left overs to an alt or to be able to sell left overs to a merchant.

They’re soulbound because people where using all of them up but 1 and selling them at the same buying price.

Atrocity.5794:

They’re soulbound because people where using all of them up but 1 and selling them at the same buying price.

They should just make them non-sellable instead of soulbound. It’s really annoying when I go to help a friend who ran out, but can’t trade my picks with him any more.

Seems like a lazy way to fix a different issue.

Flankenzee.7958:

Atrocity.5794:

They’re soulbound because people where using all of them up but 1 and selling them at the same buying price.

They should just make them non-sellable instead of soulbound. It’s really annoying when I go to help a friend who ran out, but can’t trade my picks with him any more.

Seems like a lazy way to fix a different issue.

I agree with this. Make it so that you can’t sell them back to the npc, or make it so that they can’t be traded on the auction house, but please don’t make them soulbound. At the very least, account bound. I’d like to be able to pass on my tools to my own characters.