Bound to account items

[IMadori]

Not sure if this is the right section, but lately have been thinking about bound to account items, most of the time when new content was released after a while the items like scales or orbs became bound to account which could be transferable between characters and make it much easier for rerolls etc...

 

 

I wanted to give a little suggestion of making some items bound to account which would help those who rerolled or plan to reroll to a different class, at the same time it would improve alt management.

 

Items that could become bound to account;

- Elder Scales / Fragments

- Nocturnal Scales / Fragments

- Blood Rose & Scarlet bloom

- Non sealed Weapon box from Scarlet Conservatory

- Sovereign Core

Notice that i haven’t placed anything from The Steelbreaker due to it’s still been new content, but once the new raid would come i do not see an issue with most of it becoming bound to accounts like hearts, ores etc..

Unity system is the other issue that could receive the possibility of being bound to account transfer.

Let’s see what community and staff got to say about this idea.
 

[Grimoir]

Those items will become account bound however there is a time when that happens. typically for scales, its always that most current scale isnt beocming account bound until a new one is released.

Elder scales are still not account bound as a lot of current items still need it.

 

Scarlet conservatory items - i expect those to become account bound with the release of the next raid so give or take a month or two.

Souvereign Cores, will likely become acc bound then aswel, or at the update after that.

 

Generally in BnS it does not matter how old an item is, its about how relevant it still is.

 

 

[IMadori]

2 hours ago, Grimoir said:

Those items will become account bound however there is a time when that happens. typically for scales, its always that most current scale isnt beocming account bound until a new one is released.

Elder scales are still not account bound as a lot of current items still need it.

 

Scarlet conservatory items - i expect those to become account bound with the release of the next raid so give or take a month or two.

Souvereign Cores, will likely become acc bound then aswel, or at the update after that.

 

Generally in BnS it does not matter how old an item is, its about how relevant it still is.

 

 

Not entierly sure what relevant got to do with bound to account items where the only way it is used if you are thinking about transfering to another character or gearing up an alternative character which still doesn't have much of an impact on the game, due to possibility of creating all of the accessories on the main character and still transfere them to another character so there is no difference what so ever if the current materials would be bound to account or not.

At this current stage it only stops/heavly slows people that want to transfere characters for a different class due to not liking the current one they are using, and keeping these materials not bound to account by just makes it either harder for the transfering person or little to forced play on unwanted class.

[Grimoir]

23 minutes ago, TheOri said:

Not entierly sure what relevant got to do with bound to account items where the only way it is used if you are thinking about transfering to another character or gearing up an alternative character which still doesn't have much of an impact on the game, due to possibility of creating all of the accessories on the main character and still transfere them to another character so there is no difference what so ever if the current materials would be bound to account or not.

 

Because the idea is to farm with characters not just make tons of alts to get easy mats and mail over to main. That is why a lot of materials only become account bound after a certain time.

24 minutes ago, TheOri said:

At this current stage it only stops/heavly slows people that want to transfere characters for a different class due to not liking the current one they are using, and keeping these materials not bound to account by just makes it either harder for the transfering person or little to forced play on unwanted class.

 

This is exactly the reason why they are not bound to account yet.

[IMadori]

Alts are made no matter what and gearing them is not an issue if you have decently geared main, which overall doesn't make sense, if someone wants to create a stage 10 accessory they will create stage 10 accessory even if materials are not bound to account just because of possibility that the game gave us to transfere these accessories, so having certain items like keys for arena or bg have a valuable point but materials doesn't really make sense, because in the end if someone wants to make full stage 10 accessories for an alt or future main they will do it no matter what, it's rather annoying then enjoable when it comes to bound to account materials.

[IMadori]

Aswell i understand the whole process of slowing it down, but you are not really slowing it down, duo to only possibility of gathering materials is on 1 character it remains the same it's more of creating comfortability for players.

[Grimoir]

3 hours ago, TheOri said:

Alts are made no matter what and gearing them is not an issue if you have decently geared main, which overall doesn't make sense, if someone wants to create a stage 10 accessory they will create stage 10 accessory even if materials are not bound to account just because of possibility that the game gave us to transfere these accessories, so having certain items like keys for arena or bg have a valuable point but materials doesn't really make sense, because in the end if someone wants to make full stage 10 accessories for an alt or future main they will do it no matter what, it's rather annoying then enjoable when it comes to bound to account materials.

 

Accessories can only be sent over to other characters when they are stage 10+, so you cannot just mail it around to upgrade it. Weapons can also only be sealed at stage 3/6/9.

 

It is not so much about slowing down, but keeping things balanced. Imagine making 10 alts and getting 2-3 times more Bloodroses than someone who actually does the raid every week just from alts. Thats is a great imbalance. That is why only the less relevant items for current progression are made account bound while new ones / ones that are still very much needed do not get bound.

 

You aren't supposed to progress to end game gear by just logging in once a week and doing a few quests on multiple chars and gaining more out of it than players who actually do those dungeons.

Not to mention re rolling chars is pure convenience and its only a "you" problem and not a game issue.

[IMadori]

Yes i do agree for the raid items that would create a bit of unbalance but not for normal materials like scales or cores where their only obtainablity is by doing dungeons on 1 character at the time.

Raid's are designed to be done at specific gear but that doesn't stop a group from taking a low gear alt to just get the materials.

A player would still have to play on the highest gear character to obtain Elder scales or Nocturnal Scales there is no other way except of dailies "which are pointless to be doing 7/7 unless there is a valuable event." Even current event as nice as it is most people probably do only 3/7 of the dailies.