Why soul-binding items when equppied is a good thing for trade and fun.

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Zakaluka wrote:

God no. Item binding is NOT good. It wasn't good for d3, it won't be good for this game.

Sigh. As has been pointed out a half-dozen times so far in this thread, D3 has bind on PICKUP which completely destroys trading. Bind on EQUIP means trading is like normal except you can't sell something you've used.

Just play hardcore and destroy your gear when you plebs reep.

I'd dislike binding on equip in PoE.

The strongest enemy in PoE is stash/inventory space. Due to how limiting it is, gear that I've outgrown would just become vendor trash to me.
Whereas now, I'm able to sell gear for some monies to try to afford better gear, or hand off my gear to friends who could use it.

If gear was bound on equip, that would cause prices of things to go up, coupled with bound items being a currency sink that can't be sold, it would make it even more difficult for average players to afford decent stuff.
While players could potentially make a larger profit from selling unbound items, it would make using this game's poorly designed trade system more mandatory.

Given how PoE is more-so focused towards casual players, I think it would just be a hindrance to most players, while allowing the non-casual majority to monopolize the economy even more.

soul-binding items are a trerrible idea and i oppose it.

Yeah no that is horrible.

True trading is what we have now. Where other games go wrong is they try to add solutions that are worse than the problem.

Things like RMT are just an evil you have to accept if you want a truly free, global trade system.

People like to try builds, it doesn't work out they can resell. It's not good or fun to stop this.

If you want experience something not being tradable after a use then try hardcore where you are constantly resetting your gear.

Half the appeal of PoE is it has that totally free unbound trading system like D2.

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KZA wrote:

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Zakaluka wrote:

God no. Item binding is NOT good. It wasn't good for d3, it won't be good for this game.

Sigh. As has been pointed out a half-dozen times so far in this thread, D3 has bind on PICKUP which completely destroys trading. Bind on EQUIP means trading is like normal except you can't sell something you've used.

People get the concept of binding, most of us have mmo experience.

I think you're failing to grasp how rarity comes into play. It's one thing for tabula's to be a bound item, especially since you can vendor for a divine later. It's another thing when you talk about binding items much more rare. I've found a number of tabulas since I started, and still have enough humility cards in standard for several more. I have found one windripper, no kaom's, one shav's, no seven league step, no skyforth's, no death's door, etc.

Also, gearing isn't locked to party play type content like raids or ops groups. There's no area that guarantees items, rng is always in play. Areas may allow the possibility something can actually drop, but it still doesn't mean it will.

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DivineChampion wrote:

I don't think you are correct.

Price are not going to increase 30x times if game will have soul-bind of items.
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It's basic supply and demand. If drop rates remain the way they are now, and the item sink is implemented, supply declines while demand remains constant. What happens to price in that situation? It rises. Perhaps the exemplary figure of 30x I made up is inaccurate, but the principle is correct: The price will go up substantially.

You are right supply will be lower - but demand also will be lower because item which can't be resold have much less value for buyers. This is the reason why prices won't go higher for common items like Tabula.

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KZA wrote:

Can no one in this forum read/comprehend?

This is not like D3... this is bind on EQUIP, not drop. You can trade literally everything you find like normal, until it's used. The OP is right.

Lol, the OP is you and your own TLDR talks about increased droprates:

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KZA wrote:

TLDR: without soulbinding, drop rates are WAY lower than they otherwise would be... and finding loot = more fun than trading for loot, therefore soulbound items is a good thing.

You're talking about changing the play experience (increased drops) to counter the fact that soulbinding will take items out of circulation. The game raining uniques is very different than players having the option to trade for them.

To be fair as a forumer for over 2 decades, the OP can sometimes be referenced as the main original poster in a quote chain. But yeah I lol'd when I read that haha

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KZA wrote:

Can no one in this forum read/comprehend?

This is not like D3... this is bind on EQUIP, not drop. You can trade literally everything you find like normal, until it's used. The OP is right.

I know that by posting this I'm pushing this back to the front page, but since girng pointed it out - I've never seen someone quote himself/herself and then refer to said self in the third person.

Typically the people that bother at least log into another account to appear to be different people.

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SeCKSEgai wrote:

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KZA wrote:

Can no one in this forum read/comprehend?

This is not like D3... this is bind on EQUIP, not drop. You can trade literally everything you find like normal, until it's used. The OP is right.

I know that by posting this I'm pushing this back to the front page, but since girng pointed it out - I've never seen someone quote himself/herself and then refer to said self in the third person.

Typically the people that bother at least log into another account to appear to be different people.

If you look at the post just above the one you're quoting, it ends with "the OP is wrong" So in my reply, I poetically ended it with "the OP is right." Context helps.