I just bought a nice set of coalition disruptors, only to find out that once again these new weapons are character bind on equip. Cryptic, did you just decide to abandon account bound items altogether? Past lockbox weapons were first character bound, and then they were account bound, which was really nice! I liked sharing these weapon types between characters. And now they're being character bound again.
I'm a weapon collector, so I like to collect these weapon types when they come out. But if they're going to be character bound, I'm probably not gonna bother with them anymore.
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Please, Cryptic just make Lockbox weapons account bind and leave them that way!
I honestly can't remember ANY lockbox weapons that were account bound. If there are, it's news to me.
So far no acknowledgement or fixes of the issue, and as I suspected, it's not just me affected.
http://perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/discussion/1198827/space-weapon-upgrade-failure-bound-to-character#latest
Just to be clear, my weapons were from the exchange, and are meant to be account-bound once equipped. I did not even equip them at any point after upgrading and still ended up with one char bound. I mention this here just in hopes it gets some attention for a fix as it is related, and yes I also noticed a change between account and char bindings in the past, which I hope gets addressed once and for good.
That appears to be a completely different issue of an item that was never equipped becoming bound when attempting to upgrade it.
From my library, Corrosive Plasma, Plasmatic Biomatter, Fluidic AP, Vaadwaur Polaron, Phased Biomatter, and Destabilizing Tetryon are account bound.
Hybrid weapon types from earlier lockboxes are character bound. These came out before account bound items were introduced. Voth AP, Elachi, and Nanite disruptors are also character bound.
I commented about this Character BOE, Coalition Disruptors on NOP Public Service. When I said that one guy was in horror because he had used a bunch of them on a character, which was intended for another later on. He automatically assumed these were Bound to Account like Cryptic's last several Lockbox Weapons.
The last Lockbox Weapons before Coalition Disruptors that were Character Bound on Equip were Destabilizing Tetryons from April 2014. From that point on until the new Coalition Disruptors, they were Account Bound weapons.
Undine AP
Phased Biomatter
Corrosive Plasma
Vaadwaur Polaron
Plasmatic Biomatter
These were all Account Bound on Equip Lockbox Weapons after Destabilizing Tetryons came out. Then all the sudden Cryptic changes things and makes the newest ones Character Bound again.