Soulbinding... could be a concern.. especialy for enchantingFollow

For the most part I think it's good. Keeps inflation down. The one thing that could be changed would be to make it so you can disenchant from the "won't be traded" window. However, I'm wondering if this would make enchanting too "easy", since it's by design and intent the "harcore" profession.

You can't hand down items, but unused items are tradable. Also, with required levels in the game, it's kinda hard to pass stuff along anyway to twink your new friend.

I agree on the disenchanting though. You should be able to disenchant through the soulbound slot in the trade window.

It also allows for more personal customization of equipment. Hunters of the same level will more then likely have different types of equipment, especially since different quests in different areas yield different reward choices.

Sorry to bring up FFXI again, but in that game, all job classes followed the same equipment paths. Everyone was a carbon copy of the other jobs of the same level and those that had come before.

WoW's system gives us more personal choice and prevents over camping.

And don't forget the bonuses that leatherworkers can apply to leather armor. That changes when you need to upgrade armor, so again it adds in a whole set of choices to make.

Need before Greed, the way it should always have been.


He who needs it, gets it.

From what I've seen, the "general" equipment is not bound and is also rather easy to come by. The "good" stuff (green) often binds on use so it's easy to give away if you're not going to use it. As for the rare items, I've yet to see one so I don't have a clue. My point is, you don't have to support your lower level friends be "good" players cause the average gear is very easy to get. If they want nifty rare items you can help them get them, buy them on AH, or the preferred means, get a group together and go have a ball in an instance! The fact that you have to earn the good gear and can't just have it hand-me-downed is really a storng point in this game. You don't have to work to keep yourself in decent gear, you just have to work if you want really nice gear.

Enchanting would become a lot more of a viable tradeskill at lower levels if you had the ability to disenchant soulbound items through the trade window, but it wouldn't really change the fact that enchanting is a higher level tradeskill. Based on the fact that leveling the actual skill requires disenchanting higher level items, which inherently will have a higher auction house price, it makes it nearly impossible for someone below level 40 to turn this into a money making tradeskill.

I found that around level 40+, you could start easily farming some of the lower level instances. For the horde, that would be Ragefire Chasm, Wailing Caverns and depending on your class, Razorfen Kraul. I personally started this around level 37 on my open beta character and found that it was a bit tough before Ragefire Chasm was introduced a few patches ago, but after that, I found myself storing huge amounts of enchanting components in my bank. If I had put more effort into the tradeskill, I probably could have leveled it quicker, but unfortunately with the economy on the closed beta servers in the turmoil that they were in, people were rarely looking for lower level enchants. Hopefully things will change for retail.

While I haven't tried enchanting as a trade skill, but I believe the setup blizzard put upon us is great.

For us to not rely on a friend to pity or help us with their better weapons and armors, it allows us to fully experience the game. Although, I would prefer a higher selling price from the vendors and would also agree on trading soulbound items for disenchantment.

Lower stats items will do you fine unless you're striving for the best. And if you are seeking the best, there's no freebie in the world. Find it, slaughter it, quest it, and it's yours. Remember, WOW is a world of survivors.

That's my food for thought. Spare me any negative thoughts thus this is my second post.

Newbie to MMO.

I can see this helping people who sell money on-line. They could monopolies the market easier because of bind on equip items.

They just get a few people camping the monsters that drop it, with enough people and some bots they could gt the monster every time as i have seen in FFXI, and boom they are in total control as they stop other from getting it and people who have upgraded cant sell it there is no other way but to buy it off them anf hence they can charge what ever they like.

there is 3 things i'm not sure on that would combat it:
1. the value of money. like in diablo 2 gold is worthless, it is is similar in WoW and if gold isn't that valuble comparatively there would be no market for gold sellers.
2. the need of good equipment. if the advantage of these items are small most people would just skip them.
3. Blizzards stance on gold sellers. if the constantly seek them out and cancel there accounts there wount be a problem.

I do not see how soulbinding makes this any more likely than in other games. That is exactly what happens in other games even if they do not bind the item. So the concern is present in any game where drops can be sold for money, and the drops can be farmed by holding a spawn camp.

Actually, having items bind on loot will minimize this if anything.

At first I didn’t like the idea of soul bound items. I like passing out items to low level characters and to my alts. But after playing in the first stress test and open beta I have to say that Blizzard has done a good job of balancing this feature. The items your very first character gets during the first ten levels is junk. I don’t see that as a problem, it’s just a fact. I was amazed when I was level fifteen and found a really nice piece of equipment and then found that its minimum level requirement was something like level six.

What this means is that you can level an alt to about level six or ten and then you can equip him or her with some very decent gear. Heck, even with crappy gear I’m able to solo just fine. With level equivalent standard gear just about every character class can kick butt. And if you happen to loot, or fish up, green items, these can be passed to alts or friends or sold off. Blizzard has managed to allow players to twink their alts and friends while still keeping quests and instanced exciting by offering even better items.

Go Blizzard! *grins*

I think what a lot of people have forgotten or that they don't know about WoW is that any specific items aren't only from a certain named spawn like in several other MMOs out on the market right now. If you take a look out on thottbot, you can see that almost ANY green or higher item that is currently in the game can drop from a variety of mobs, the droprate is just very low.

I for one found an epic level sword from a random level 45 mob that I was fighting while running around finishing a quest. I didn't have much use for it with my Rogue (it was a 2h sword) so I threw it up on auction house and it sold later on that day for 80 gold.

Although most items that you will find on boss mobs are BoP (Bind on Pickup) a lot of the other items that you can find in an instance are all going to be BoE, (Bind on Equip) including Rare and Epic level weapons/armor. I can finally rest happy with instances, knowing that I'm not camping a rare spawn along with ten other people just to get an item that I want to further my character. Instead, I can spend some time gaining exp (solo play? how incredible!) and farming for an item that I would like, and will most likely use for up to 10 levels down the road. Take a look at my profile in my signature and look at the levels of the blue items I have and you will see how incredible they can be for the level you get them, and that they are quite viable for 10+ levels into your character.