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Bind on Pick-up refers to items that a character can not drop or trade to other characters. These "bind" or stick to a character as soon as they are picked up.

The only BoP items in Diablo 3 are quest items, things that are not used or equipped, but that must be held in the [[quest]] items [[inventory]] tab and that are needed to complete quests. These items vanish as soon as the quest is completed, or once the character abandons the quest.

==Blizzard Comments==

Jay Wilson spoke on this issue at Blizzcon 2009. [http://g4tv.com/games/pc/28197/diablo-iii/articles/68225/BlizzCon-2009-Diablo-III-Game-Director-Interview/]

::'''Jay Wilson: '''We have no “Soulbound” or bind-on-pickup, except for quest items. We do have bind-on-equip for the highest end items in the game. We targeted, roughly, any item above level 85. These we will do as bind-on-equip. The reason for this is that we want people to be able to trade them, but we also want to remove the high-end items from the economy. One of the greatest ways that you can do that is with bind-on-equip. What we don’t want is to have a situation where you find something on the ground like, “Oh, man. This would be a perfect weapon for my Monk. Oh, but I just picked it up and now it’s on the wrong character.” We don’t want that at all.

::Most of our focus on Diablo 3 is as a [[trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.

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-'''Bind on Pick-up''' refers to [[item]]s that a [[character]] can not trade to other characters or drop on the ground for others to pick up. These become [[soulbound]] to a character as soon as they are picked up.
+'''Bind on Pick-up''', or "BoP," refers to [[item]]s that a [[character]] can not trade to other characters or drop on the ground for others to pick up. These become [[soulbound]] to a character as soon as they are picked up.
-There was never any serious consideration of BoP items in Diablo III, and in April 2011 Jay Wilson confirmed that there will be no item [[binding]] of any kind in the game.
+Though [[World of Warcraft]] has numerous BoP items, there was never any serious consideration of including BoP in Diablo III. [[BoA]] and [[BoE]] were considered, but ultimately ruled out, and in April 2011 Jay Wilson confirmed that there will be no item [[binding]] of any kind in the game.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-diablo3.cc-interview-full-transcript/]
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 * [[Bind on Account]]
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 * [http://g4tv.com/games/pc/28197/diablo-iii/articles/68225/BlizzCon-2009-Diablo-III-Game-Director-Interview/ Game Director Interview]

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 ==Related Articles==
-Related, but not the same as Bind on Pick-up is '''BoE''' or [[Bind on Equip]]. It's items that [[soulbound|soulbind]] like BoP items, but only when used, so it can be [[trade]]d.
+Other forms of item binding include:
+* [[Bind on Equip]]
-[[World of WarCraft]] has a lot of BoP items, from every major boss in fact, and many fans are afraid this might be true in ''[[Diablo 3]]''.
+* [[Bind on Account]]
 ==Reference==

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 '''Bind on Pick-up''' refers to [[item]]s that a [[character]] can not trade to other characters or drop on the ground for others to pick up. These become [[soulbound]] to a character as soon as they are picked up.
 ==BoP In Diablo 3==
-The only BoP items in ''[[Diablo 3]]'' are [[quest item]]s that are not used or equipped, but that must be held in the [[quest]] items [[inventory]] tab and that are needed to complete quests. These items vanish as soon as the quest is completed, or once the character abandons the quest.
+Early in development, quest items were basically treated as BoP in Diablo III. When players picked up a quest item, the item automatically popped into a special tab of the inventory where only quest items could be held. These items were not equippble and had no function except that they were needed for the quest. Items in the quest inventory could not be picked up, and were only removable by canceling the quest, which would make the item(s) related to that quest vanish.
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 ::Most of our focus on ''[[Diablo 3]]'' is as a [[trade|trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.
-Note that, as of April 2011, there are no longer bind on equip items in Diablo III.

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	::Most of our focus on ''[[Diablo 3]]'' is as a [[trade\|trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.		::Most of our focus on ''[[Diablo 3]]'' is as a [[trade\|trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.
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		+	Note that, as of April 2011, there are no longer bind on equip items in Diablo III.

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	::Most of our focus on ''[[Diablo 3]]'' is as a [[trade\|trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.		::Most of our focus on ''[[Diablo 3]]'' is as a [[trade\|trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.
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		+	==Related Articles==
		+	Related, but not the same as Bind on Pick-up is '''BoE''' or [[Bind on Equip]]. It's items that [[soulbound\|soulbind]] like BoP items, but only when used, so it can be [[trade]]d.
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		+	[[World of WarCraft]] has a lot of BoP items, from every major boss in fact, and many fans are afraid this might be true in ''[[Diablo 3]]''.

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-Bind on Pick-up refers to items that a character can not drop or trade to other characters. These "bind" or stick to a character as soon as they are picked up.
+'''Bind on Pick-up''' refers to [[item]]s that a [[character]] can not trade to other characters or drop on the ground for others to pick up. These become [[soulbound]] to a character as soon as they are picked up.
-The only BoP items in Diablo 3 are quest items, things that are not used or equipped, but that must be held in the [[quest]] items [[inventory]] tab and that are needed to complete quests.  These items vanish as soon as the quest is completed, or once the character abandons the quest.
 ==Blizzard Comments==
-Jay Wilson spoke on this issue at Blizzcon 2009. [http://g4tv.com/games/pc/28197/diablo-iii/articles/68225/BlizzCon-2009-Diablo-III-Game-Director-Interview/]
+::'''[[Jay Wilson]]: '''We have no “[[Soulbound]]” or bind-on-pickup, except for quest items. We do have [[Bind on Equip|bind-on-equip]] for the highest end items in the game. We targeted, roughly, any item above level 85. These we will do as bind-on-equip. The reason for this is that we want people to be able to trade them, but we also want to remove the [[end game|high-end]] items from the economy. One of the greatest ways that you can do that is with bind-on-equip. What we don't want is to have a situation where you find something on the ground like, “Oh, man. This would be a perfect weapon for my [[Monk]]. Oh, but I just picked it up and now it's on the wrong character.” We don't want that at all.
-::'''Jay Wilson: '''We have no “Soulbound” or bind-on-pickup, except for quest items. We do have bind-on-equip for the highest end items in the game. We targeted, roughly, any item above level 85. These we will do as bind-on-equip. The reason for this is that we want people to be able to trade them, but we also want to remove the high-end items from the economy. One of the greatest ways that you can do that is with bind-on-equip. What we don’t want is to have a situation where you find something on the ground like, “Oh, man. This would be a perfect weapon for my Monk. Oh, but I just picked it up and now it’s on the wrong character.” We don’t want that at all.
+::Most of our focus on ''[[Diablo 3]]'' is as a [[trade|trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.
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 [[category:items]]