Exactly i was about to reply but someone else already did. How did u get all the way up to 5 star gear without knowing this...

OP

watch your language.

Also, if you ever equipped it, it's bound.

Also, if you built past 4*, it's bound.

Also..

eh. never mind.

2* and 3* gear are usually not bound upon creation because they don't require heat. If the original item was not bound, the created item is not bound.

Heating requires the item to be equipped, thus binding the item.

Thus, all 4* and 5* items are bound when created, because 4* items require the 3* to be at lvl 5, and 5* items require the item to be at lvl 10.

It has been and so it shall be.

Edit: I think I understand why you're confused. Any item you transmute from a previously bound item is bound, whether you equip it or not after you craft it. That means that if you use a bound Silent Nightblade to create an Acheron, the Acheron is still bound. Also, if you happen to be a player joining us after a long hiatus, a patch was introduced that binds all items by the previously stated rules, whereas items were not bound before.

No, you just don't understand how the game mechanics work, OP (edit: not directed at previous poster, this is directed to original poster)

You should never have been able to heat up your cold iron carver and have it not be bound after equipping it to heat it.

If you did and you sold it, that is abusing a bug.

All gear binds when you equip.

Otherwise, you talk to the gremlin who can unbind your item for you.

UVs have absolutely nothing to do with an item being bound.

If you alchemize an item that is already bound to you, it remains bound no matter what. If you heated up an item, that means that you equipped the item. If you equipped the item, that binds it to you.

calmed down and you changed your tone, i apologize

Also, being able to sell a weapon has nothing to do with "winning" this game. There are plenty of ways to do well in this game without needing to pay a penny. Having money helps with having stellar gear for LD, but that's about it. The rest of it is just the speed you go through the game.

DUDE,

u equip the item Its bound forever even if u craft.

OK

UV's .... dont affect ANYTHING

NO MATTER WHAT

Once u equip something its bound

I think you're confused. All the UV box does is transfer the UVs. It had no effect on if the item is bound or not. If it does that is a glitch that needs to be reported immediately and looked into.

They used to be exactly like you're describing it. Back in beta and a bit at release when you crafted an item it would become unbound even if you had equipped it before. Which meant you could trade those items after crafted. It was a huge market, and a big sort of exploit. I think it was around june/july they made the binding update that any item equipped was bound automatically, but you could unbind these items for a price.

Now, if you want to update a three star item to a four star item you will have to be heated to level five. In order to heat an item it must be equipped, therefore said item would be bound.

the line you are crafting goes as such:

brandish(2 star)> nightblade(3 star)> silent nightblade(4 star)> acheron(5 star)

The brandish doesn't have to be bound because it's two star and no heat required for it to be made into nightblade. So now you have a nightblade that you wish to craft to silent nightblade. The nightblade must be heated to level five before it can be made into a silent nightblade. Therefore, equipping the nightblade which makes the silent nightblade and acheron bound.

Three Rings isn't making this a huge plot for your money so get off that subject already and move on about this pay for play nonsense.