Guild Wars 2

I’ve gotten two rare accessories (<70 level) today and both of them were automatically soulbound. Is this a bug?

It usually depends on how you got it. Personal story stuff is always soulbound. The rare hat at the end of a story dungeon is always soulbound. If it felt like it was anything that was personal only for you, it will always be soulbound. If it was just a random drop off a mob than that may be a bug.

Story I understand. These are just rare drops, that could effectively generate nice revenue on the trader, yet I’m relinquished to just selling it to merchant. Not cool ANet!

The mob-dropped auto-soulbound ones can’t be salvaged either.