Found a way to make Bound to Account items/weapons

[cdemeritt]

So, today I accidentally stumbled onto a way to make the Bound shards Bound to Account...





Start with bound to account items, and when you disjunction them, like guild slots or base metal, the Bound to account blank remains Bound to account...

Don't yet know if this is intended, or even if this is known about..

[WielderofGigantus]

So where do you get bound to account random items? I know of a couple of quest chains that give in bound to account end rewards for completing the entire chain, but as it's random stuff, you won't always get the nice metal or guild augment that you're looking for....

[Tuney]

Best place to find "Bind to Account" items are quest(s) (chains) that give named "Bound to account" items. Sence you don't care about the 'quaility' of said item, best to start with the 'shorter' quick chains that you can solo on higher level charaters.

[bkasavan]

The only place i can think oof that gives bta non-named equipment, is Sharn Syndicate. i didnt no they gave items with materials? do they?

[MeliCat]

The only place i can think oof that gives bta non-named equipment, is Sharn Syndicate. i didnt no they gave items with materials? do they?

yes

and the lordsmarch plaza quest end rewards too.

[cdemeritt]

I've pulled BtA non-named items from every quest chain (WW, STK, Sharns, Tangleroot, Delera's Co6, etc, etc) As well as occasionally from Irestone, Sharns, and others (sharns most often, but others as well...)


Always that I've seen, it has been an end reward.
just make sure it is a random and not named item.

[Wurmwood]

WAI
Been this way as said earlier for a while. Makes it so you can have lowbie gear in the shared bank for another character when you make another. This better stay the way it is.

[Matuse]

The only place i can think oof that gives bta non-named equipment, is Sharn Syndicate. i didnt no they gave items with materials? do they?

All quest chains have these items. Waterworks, STK, Catacombs, Threnal, etc.

[ZaxisDakmorr]

I found A LOT of em in the Red Fens as quest reward.

[Seventh]

WAI
Been this way as said earlier for a while. Makes it so you can have lowbie gear in the shared bank for another character when you make another. This better stay the way it is.

Do we have a dev post anywhere stating this is WAI? It seems odd, since we're supposedly getting a non-bound crafting system later to go with the bound one.

[cdemeritt]

Do we have a dev post anywhere stating this is WAI? It seems odd, since we're supposedly getting a non-bound crafting system later to go with the bound one.

Yeah, it seemed odd to me as well... But do hope this is WAI, as it will make crafted gear for other at a lower crafter level....

[Backley]

Sounds similar to the fact that the Stone of Change Bind/Attune ritual on BTA items maintains BTA. So, you can already get a BTA weapon from a chain and add Force Damage Ritual to it.

[Alabore]

These aren't the BtA items you were looking for...

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[TechNoFear]

Sounds like a bug.

As a guess....the code is checking for 'bound' not 'BtC', succeding, and so failing to update the 'BtA' to 'BtC'.

Sounds similar to the fact that the Stone of Change Bind/Attune ritual on BTA items maintains BTA. So, you can already get a BTA weapon from a chain add Force Damage Ritual to it.

Sounds like the same bug and possibly the source.

If a dev reused some 'altar of change' code in the new crafting devices.

[Alabore]

I am inclined to suspect it is not a bug.
More like the logical application of a known feature.

Wouldn't dwell on it much further though.
You know what happens to beneficial features...

[Seventh]

This seems iffy. I wouldn't count on this lasting long if it makes it to live.

[EustaceTrevelyan]

WAI
Been this way as said earlier for a while. Makes it so you can have lowbie gear in the shared bank for another character when you make another. This better stay the way it is.

The BtA-ness of the items in original form is WAI, but i'm not sure the CRAFTABILITY of BtA items at every level of crafting is. It'd be nice if they left it like that tho. BtC makes this GS lite (well, in some cases it's better; you don't need cleansing essences to wear more than one.)

[Bodic]

I have my +5 DD nml gear that dropd from WW for certain, and I wouldn't Decon those ever

Can you say a 10 Int rogue @lvl1 with a +22 DD skill add more w/ship buffs

[Wurmwood]

Look at this in the long run. It will probably be a while before crafting BtA items will make it in live, but you never know. Now if you receive a bound randomly generated item from a quest, you should be able to use said bound item for crafting keeping the bound effect on it. It is a quest chain reward, you spent the time (real life time) to do the quest chain so as a reward you get said (random) item with a special property.
Choosing to craft said item into a +5 Holy/PG dagger is entirely up to you, it is your right as a subscriber/player to do so and have that item retain the BtA effect (That you spent your time to get as a special reward) so you can pass it along to another character of yours should you feel the need.
My best guess is that the ability to craft non BtC items will probably be very rare(costly?), being that you might have to level your schools very high or get BtA shards randomly from deconstruction. I foresee that a few BtA craftable items will probably make their way to the turbine store should you not want to take the long route to craft your special item(The trinket is already there). I know some people may have this false sense of duty, appeal to authority, or whatever it is that compels them to see crafting these BtA items as "wrong" but you are nipping yourself in the bud here. Don't force another "limit" to this game it will only frustrate you later. Many people pay money to play this game, others do not. But we all pay with the time we invest into it. So invest in more options that will be available to the player.

(There is still the bug where you can make items lose the minimum level, but this will be fixed so dreams of making BtA items with no minimum level will be quashed, as it should be)

[cipherdawn]

Would be nice if a Dev confirmed this as WAI?