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azahron
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So, I recently came back to the game a few weeks ago - and among the many cool new things there are items that are bound to my account.
Obviously my first reaction is "Sweet! I've always liked that feature on other MMO's that did it, like DDO and WoW. Cryptic is really doing a great job here with all these upgrades!", then I go to stash my shiny new account bound item in the bank until I decide which of my many alts gets to use it later.
Fast forward a few weeks... I go to the bank to withdraw some of those account bound XP boosters, strut over to the nearest mailbox and write myself a nice mail to containing a gift for one of my lowbies... next thing I know there's angry red text flashing across my screen!
Apparently I'm up to no good or something, because this angry red text goes "Hey! You can't do that! Why are you trying to mail account bound items to yourself?!" and keeps telling me I can't do that.
Next logical step: visit the forums and find out what I'm doing wrong here; use the search function before someone comes along and goes "****, you're supposed to search for things first before posting on them!".
The forums tell me that these bound to account items are basically simply bound to character items... well, there goes the excitement about that feature.
Now I noticed that these posts date back from a few months ago, so I'm wondering if this has been resolved in the meanwhile? Is there some way I can get these account bound items to my alts? Or are these xp boosters that are utterly worthless to a level 60 character just going to sit there until the level cap gets raised or I decide I should just delete them?
TL,DR: Any word on this bound to account feature? Is there a work-around that I'm missing?
And if not, please devs - can you either change a very misleading name to a proper simple "bound" (minus the account part) or get this system working? =/
Obviously my first reaction is "Sweet! I've always liked that feature on other MMO's that did it, like DDO and WoW. Cryptic is really doing a great job here with all these upgrades!", then I go to stash my shiny new account bound item in the bank until I decide which of my many alts gets to use it later.
Fast forward a few weeks... I go to the bank to withdraw some of those account bound XP boosters, strut over to the nearest mailbox and write myself a nice mail to containing a gift for one of my lowbies... next thing I know there's angry red text flashing across my screen!
Apparently I'm up to no good or something, because this angry red text goes "Hey! You can't do that! Why are you trying to mail account bound items to yourself?!" and keeps telling me I can't do that.
Next logical step: visit the forums and find out what I'm doing wrong here; use the search function before someone comes along and goes "****, you're supposed to search for things first before posting on them!".
The forums tell me that these bound to account items are basically simply bound to character items... well, there goes the excitement about that feature.
Now I noticed that these posts date back from a few months ago, so I'm wondering if this has been resolved in the meanwhile? Is there some way I can get these account bound items to my alts? Or are these xp boosters that are utterly worthless to a level 60 character just going to sit there until the level cap gets raised or I decide I should just delete them?
TL,DR: Any word on this bound to account feature? Is there a work-around that I'm missing?
And if not, please devs - can you either change a very misleading name to a proper simple "bound" (minus the account part) or get this system working? =/
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It might be if you could tell me how.
Sending it to @accountname got me the red error text - is there something I'm supposed to do differently?
I did have quite new account bound items that I got from the Arc promotion, maybe the older account bound items aren't mailable.
Hmm, maybe that's it and a few of the older ones are bugged. =/
Thanks, w00t!
New account bound items should mail just fine.
Yea, it seems its the original bonus XP boosts that are bugged, or over looked. All of the newer stuff, the CTA skins and Coffer rewards, seem to work just fine.
First, you must ADDRESS the mail to your @Handle (@myname only, not a character, like Toon@MyName - that does't seem to always work consistently).
THEN you must put in a subject.
THEN (if desired) type in your message.
THEN (and apparently ONLY THEN) do you attempt to attach the Account-Bound item to the message. As long as you address it FIRST and put a subject in, then you can attach Account-Bound stuff. I managed to figure this out when I got the same errors as the OP. Then discovered that addressing it to my @Handle first finally allowed me to attach the item.
As for any older account-bound items being bugged - perhaps this is true. But I've been mailing AB items to my alts since the feature was first available without any problems (save for my description above - the error, then immediately figuring out you have to address the message *first*.) So perhaps I've been lucky that I've never run into these 'bugged' items.
Yeah, I did that the moment I got the error messages, first to my @handle and then to my charname@handle to see if it would work then, neither did so I suspect they're bugged. I even went as far as to mail myself an empty mail to see if I could attach them in the reply (since it kept telling me that I had to address the mail to myself first, even after I had filled out every single field on the mail).
No biggie, they are just xp boosters anyway - and xp isn't exactly hard to get on Neverwinter.
That would definitely do it, I believe I have some more recent ones that I can use to test it with.
Old account-bound items (basically the XP booster) still can't be mailed.
Also, old items that used to be character-bound but are now account-bound *also* cannot be mailed, as I recently discovered with some Many-Arrows weapons I have left from the very first CTA. They don't suit the TR I got them with at all, but are perfect for another one I created later... but I can't mail them.
I submitted a bug report about it when I discovered this.
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I mean really, spending a few thousand astral diamonds to buy some choice items in the auction house... then having to sell it for pennies of what it initially cost (or just tossing it out as trash) because that is the only options available, since it is bound to you - that's just crazy!
Besides all the other adventurers will tease you if you are buying off used or donated clothing rack. And no one wants that.
This is pretty hilarious, since in REAL D&D almost all eq is used hand-me-downs. Magic items are hard and expensive to make. They actually drain the life force of the crafter. So when you find a+1 weapon say in a treasure cash it has likely passed from owner to owner for hundreds if not thousands of years.
@Handle
Put in my Subject
Place message Hello
Then i attach the item but it wont let me post it red test is pissing me off
what am i doing wrong ?
My beat up, worn out , use armor has the same appearance and stats it had when I purchased it and maybe someone who doesn't have the financial status to afford to buy new items would benefit from being able to buy a slightly used - but still in perfect condition piece of equipment.
IMPO; Your reply seems to be about as bogus as having 'Bound to Character' items that cannot be unbound and recycled.
How about some kind of magic smithing, like is available for EPIC items where an item can be unbound for a fist full of astral diamonds?
to mail to an alt you have to type the full name in. Like for my alt it'd be zshikara@zshikara.
You can't mail something to just @zshikara.
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It's the Exp booster from the Caturday survival pack that cannot be mailed , they say they are account bound but they aren't.
When u use apperence of Char Bound item ON ACC Bound item
u wont be able to mail it to other chars on acc. item is still acc bound but counts as char bound.
Egzample i used Maelstrom Cloak that was bound on me on Slayer Neck ( Acc Bound ) and i am no longer able to transfer account bound slayer neck item into other chars on acc
keep this in mind.
Not thus far. I gave up on some weapon skins I had and used them to obscure my hideous black ice daggers.
I have an unopened Caturday pack that one day I will open and see if the boosters work properly if they're added to inventory now, just for interest's sake. (I keep it unopened because I don't want the irreplaceable trinkets taking up multiple inventory spaces.)
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