Guild Wars 2

I crafted a set of assassin’s light armor (exotic) on my Necromancer — who has 500 tailoring — for my Mesmer. I also crafted 6 superior runes of the scholar to put in the assassin’s set. I put the runes into the set on my Necromancer and put the set into my bank, only to discover on my Mesmer that the set had been soulbound to my Necromancer. The assassin’s set is not useful for my Necromancer and, as a result, I’ve lost the gold I used in crafting it (imagine if the set was of ascended rarity).

The reason I think that runes soulbind armor is to prevent runed armor pieces from being sold on the trading post. Restricting runed armor from being sold simplifies searching the trading post because there’s no mixed categories for a particular kind of armor AND a particular kind of rune. That makes sense. But surely it is not intended that people crafting their own armor, never interacting with the tradepost, are unable to use their armor by doing something that seems intuitive, and who could not reasonably know in advance about runes soulbinding armor. It would make a great deal more sense if runes accountbound armor instead of soulbinding them. Applying a rune and having it soulbind is unintuitive because typically soulbinding usually happens when you equip an item for the first time. It’s easy to change the value of an item from being accountbound to soulbound so that a set of runed armor can go from being accountbound (preventing it from going on the tradepost) to being soulbound on a character who first equips the set.

This is feedback that I think can improve the game for players (based on the discussion I had with my guild, a lot of people have experienced this, sometimes with ascended armor) and prevent the awful feeling of spending a lot of time doing something only to have that effort wasted. Also, it seems like an easy fix.