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Binding ("Soul Binding" in WoW) refers to items that are locked to a character or account once they are found, picked up, or equipped (depending on the particular rules for that item in a particular game). Binding is most often incorporated into a game to limit trading, either by removing items from the economy (once they are equipped they can not be traded) or to force players to find their own gear (bind on pick-up or account items can't be traded at all).
Some fans who felt unsatisfied with the [[Auction House]] economy in Diablo 3 tried to play the game [[self-found]] (AKA [[Ironborn]]) for a greater challenge and sense of accomplishment. Ultimately the Diablo 3 developers came to agree with them, that it was more fun to find gear than to buy it, and changed almost everything in [[D3v2]]. ==Binding History in Diablo 3== There was no item binding when Diablo III launched, but subsequent patches added binding for special materials and crafted items, and then for practically everything in [[Diablo 3 version 2]].
* [[Patch 1.0.5]] added the [[Infernal Machine]], and made all materials (keys and organs) used to create Hellfire Rings as Bind of Account, so they can not be traded or sold to other players.
* [[Patch 1.0.7]] added five new level 63 crafting recipes, and the gloves, shoulders, bracers, chests, and amulets created by these recipes are all Bind on Account.
* [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]] use binding for almost everything. All legendary items, crafting plans, gold, materials, gems, and many other items and commodities are Bind of Account.
** The small exception is that [[legendary]] (or Set) items can be traded (given) to other players in the game when the item was found, for up to 2 hours after that game ends.
==Item Binding Basics==
The basic types of binding. Diablo 3 has thus far only used uses BoAin almost every instance.
* [[Bind on Account]] "BoA" -- Items can be shifted between characters on the same account, but not anyone else.
==More Binding Coming in Reaper of Souls==
After various high quality BoA items were added in crafting recipes in Patch v1.07, the developers liked how they worked in the game economy and there are plans for many more binding items in the [[Reaper of Souls]] expansion.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-developer-interview-podcast-part-2]
<blue>Wyatt Cheng: On the topic of the Mystic, we are looking at methods for a Mystic to modify an item. Whether that be adding a property, or allowing you to reroll the stats on a property, or allowing you to roll another property, or you like an item except one of the stats rolled low and you want a shot at getting it higher. We are looking at that, and I lean towards the idea that you’d want that item to be Soul bound.</blue>
This concept blew up over time and eventually virtually everything, item or material or gold, became Bound to Account in [[Diablo 3 version 2]].
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