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This article is about the item property. For the Shadowlands system, see Soulbinding.

Soulbound is the property of an item that prevents it from being traded or mailed to another character or sold in the Auction House.

Items usually become soulbound one of five ways:

  • Acquiring the item marked as "Bind on Pickup". Items given as quest rewards are usually BoP. Looting a BoP item should give you a warning alert that this item will bind to you.
  • Equipping an item that is marked as "Bind on Equip". You should get a warning alert that this item will bind to you. Most of the better equippable items bind on equip.
  • Acquiring an item that is marked as "Bind on Equip" through a Need roll (as of patch 4.2.0).
  • Using an item that is marked as "Bind on Use".
  • Using certain enchants on a non-bound item.

Soulbinding is a game mechanism to prevent too much twinking from occurring. Higher-level characters cannot give their older equipment as hand-me-downs to their friends and guild mates.

Note that you can have soulbound items modified by other characters by putting the item in the bottom ("Will Not Be Traded") spot of the trade window. You can have a blacksmith attach spurs to a soulbound boot, or an enchanter applies an enchantment to a soulbound item this way.

The item can also become Account bound. It happens to items marked as Binds to account after being acquired by a player. Unlike soulbound items, they can be sent by mail to other characters of the same account, including those of other factions or realms.

Patch changes

  • Wrath-Logo-Small Hotfix (2009-04-16): Players should no longer be able to equip and soulbind an item they aren't able to use.

See also

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