Petition for unbinding without item destruction

Bashmaster - Raging Tide wrote: »

Just as the title says vote yes or no people! I think it should be so because it's a waste of our hard earned coin!

...that kinda destroys the whole idea of binding
(or maybe they're just trying to make you waste money on guardian scrolls)

i mean, what's the point of binding then?
to pk?
there's no way to pk penalty-free, it's either safety lock, guardian scrolls, or binding...deal with it

what they SHOULD do is not make any items bind automatically (say TT gold items)

my take is this -

theres a difference between things that bind automatically and things that you have to bind yourself.

The problem with the things that bind automatically is that no-one (very few anyway) make and use them because you lose the option of reusing on another toon or selling.

To me, it just means a portion of the game has been developed and is not used. What a waste. A great example is the Acalantha Wand. Sunflame that someone is trying to sell in the AH in HL. They started at 8mill and last I looked it was down to 6.5mill. Seriously, you going to pay that for a weapon that has a shelf life and you then just destroy it??

So I think for things that bind automatically you should be able to buy an Unbind token to then allow you to unbind and reuse/resell.

Now for things that you bind yourself there should be an unbind token, but maybe one that costs a lot more than the other one, because you chose to bind that item in the first place.

DEVS - theres a way to make money here for the company - develop unbinding tokens - 2 different types for whether or not an item binds automatically or you bind it by choice.

Alasen - Heavens Tear wrote: »

u sure u quoted the right person? might wanna read what i said. although i was kinda being sarcastic but if they (PW) let us unbind gear they wouldnt' make as much money...... that make more sense?

But there's the stash..... so....

haha no i didn't quote the right person, my quoting system was messed up b:shocked (quoted 3 people at the same time, had to delete two but deleted the wrong one)
my sincere apologies

Items which auto-bind after equipping, NO, items you used binding charms on, YES :P

KrittyCat wrote: »

Unbinding charm/service/item/npc should be available

At this time there is no plan for Perfect World International to offer an unbinding service as it runs contrary to express purposes of selling binding charms. Please remember that binding the items serves more than the purpose of preventing your gear from being dropped in PK, it also prevents other from selling your item/keeping your item if your account is compromised. Selling unbinding services would remove this protection. Please take the decision to bind items seriously and make sure you are comfortable NOT selling the item before binding your gear. If you want to protect yourself from dropping in PK, there are other options available to you including Guardian scrolls and safety lock. The last option is particularly attractive because you can set it for 30 minute intervals so that you don't have to wait that long if you should decide you want to do something other than PK and go blue name instead.And unlike guardian charms it is not consumable. Guardian charms are also attractive in that the protect your exp as well.

I agree that perhaps the gold tt items shouldn't autobind though. I'd rather they just stopped them from autobinding then offer an unbinding service.

Arlenia - Dreamweaver wrote: »

The problem with making gold TT armor not auto bind is that there's a reason for the binding thing. For every level of gear there's green (non-bound) and gold (bound) items. The gold ones are always of noticeably higher quality with better adds/grade/refines. You make a decision when you get the gold gear to "waste" money on gear you'll not be able to resell once you're done with it but will make you stronger now, vs saving money but being weaker until you hit the higher tier. Same with binding non-bound gear yourself. You trade the resale value for the convenience of not having to use safety lock in PK.

You can't have your cake and eat it too, sorry.

A voice of reason and understanding. I agree.

Some actions should have irreversible consequences.

It would be nice ..