09-03-2004, 06:45 AM
I've occasionally gone skimming to see what the level 55s are wearing gearwise. (No, I'm not in the beta or stress test) Recently I've noticed a trend. If you look at pretty much any level 55 character, every single piece of gear except for the tabard and the shirt is soulbound. Almost all of the gear on any character I've looked at is soulbound.
Now, I understand the merits of soulbinding. Bind on equip increases the value of an item (because you can't recycle them, you need more of them. and thus the demand is higher), and bind on pick-up blocks twinking of uber items to those who didn't do whatever epic deed you needed to do to get it. But every single high-level 'usable' item binding is overuse of the concept.
Is there not a single piece of non-binding gear that a level 55 would stoop to using?
Now, I understand the merits of soulbinding. Bind on equip increases the value of an item (because you can't recycle them, you need more of them. and thus the demand is higher), and bind on pick-up blocks twinking of uber items to those who didn't do whatever epic deed you needed to do to get it. But every single high-level 'usable' item binding is overuse of the concept.
Is there not a single piece of non-binding gear that a level 55 would stoop to using?