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hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
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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  • orion0029orion0029 Member Posts: 1,122 Bug Hunter
    I've actually wondered about this myself... My Phased Tetryon weapons are character bound, phased biomatter account bound, and coalition disruptors character bound...

    Please, Cryptic just make Lockbox weapons account bind and leave them that way!
  • lsegnlsegn Member Posts: 594 Arc User
    As a fellow weapon collector this also pisses me off.
  • durenasdurenas Member Posts: 108 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    All reward pack weapons(from lockboxes) have always been character bound. Crafted or looted standard type weapons are not.

    I honestly can't remember ANY lockbox weapons that were account bound. If there are, it's news to me.
  • alcyoneserenealcyoneserene Member Posts: 2,414 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    I filed a ticket on this as it's clearly a bug given that not all of the weapons had this sudden character bind on pickup, but just one.

    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.
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  • durenasdurenas Member Posts: 108 Arc User
    I filed a ticket on this as it's clearly a bug given that not all of the weapons had this sudden character bind on pickup, but just one.

    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

    That appears to be a completely different issue of an item that was never equipped becoming bound when attempting to upgrade it.
  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    durenas wrote: »
    All reward pack weapons(from lockboxes) have always been character bound. Crafted or looted standard type weapons are not.

    I honestly can't remember ANY lockbox weapons that were account bound. If there are, it's news to me.

    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.


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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    hypl wrote: »
    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. :/

    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.
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