Guild Wars 2

chain of events:
- account-bound item stats + soulbound item looks Transmuted makes soulbound
- Transmutation splitter told me I would get account-bound item and soulbound item back from using it.
- Transmutation splitter gave me two soulbound items.

I don’t really care what you think the mechanics of this item should be, but don’t have it lie to people. If it’s going to give you soulbound items, have it tell you so you can make informed decisions.
Same goes for transmutation stone/crystal. If the item that comes out is going to be soulbound / account bound, have it say so.
Why should light armor EVER be soulbound to a guardian??

Will return the original appearance item and stats item from an existing transmuted item. All items will remain soulbound.
— In-game description

i have used it twice (for my backpacks, when i wanted to upgrade them w/o losing skin)
both times it returned 3 soulbound items

why would you expect them to be account bound when ingame description says it returns soulbound items?

Mystic.5934:

Why should light armor EVER be soulbound to a guardian??

knowing that, why would you use transmutation splitter on light armor that is in your guardians inventory?

A= item you want to transfer to another character
B= white item that’s unbound

1) use transmute crystal/stone to on A + B, keep skin of A + stats of B.
2) put item in bank
3) retrieve item on final destination character’s inventory
4) use transm splitter, A is now bound to final character.

works with legendaries/backpacks/armor/etc

my tailor made ascended helm (account bound)
my guardian bought vigil helm (soulbound)
transmuting looks of vigil and stats of ascended produces a soulbound item for whatever reason (After doing this I did some tests and found that the resulting item is soulbound if the stats item is simply capable of being soulbound, which seems k’ed up to me)
I wanted my ascended helm back so at least I’d have a crummy-looking one to use. denied.
apparently the process I needed to follow was: transmute looks of vigil helm with stats of white item, move to character I wanted to use it on, transmute looks of white item with stats of ascended helm.

like I said in 2nd-to-last sentence: this process should not be necessary, hence: BUG

but that’s besides the original post. Transmutation splitter lied to me. It gives you a preview of what items you get back. the vigil helm was labeled soulbound and the ascended helm was labeled account bound. stupid me for believing it, right? When I get home tonight I’ll buy another T splitter and bring up a preview of another item that shows similarly for the people who only believe screenies.

It’s by design, therefore not a bug.

Saying that it’s a bug when the devs don’t consider it a bug won’t make it a bug.

Considering that the original idea behind order gear is that the character is IN the order, you should be happy they haven’t locked it in.

the bug is not that we can move vigil gear to whispers characters – I don’t care if they allow that or not.
the bug is that it’s soulbound when it says it’ll be account bound. If they want it to be soulbound, have it say it’ll be soulbound. I can work with mechanics. being lied to is not alright.

attached is a compilation of screen shots showing what I’m talking about.
on top right is the item (ascended Priory Helm of the Traveler)
on top left is the Transmutation Splitter preview.
“Wupwup Masque
…
Account Bound
Soulbound on Use”

THAT text is the bug. just stop these items from lying to us about what we will get out of them.

Transmutation stone/crystal has a similar problem:
on bottom right is the two items to be transmuted.
on bottom left is the preview if you select some things.
“Beigarth’s Masque
…
Account Bound”

again, lies.