Sending Explorer Edition items to another character? (+ the monkey)

invisiBeelity
invisiBeelity
Soul Shriven
Soo, I got into the game then couldn't zoom in at the character creation stage. I came on here and saw a post saying to simply make a throwaway character, then when you start a new one it fixes the issue. However on my first character in all the excitement I checked my messages and found the Explorer items plus the monkey for being in the beta had been sent. I grabbed everything thinking that it would be ACCOUNT bound, not CHARACTER bound, and I'd just be able to mail these items to myself and open them on my new character.

So I've made a new character and logged back into the first character and realised you cannot just mail the items to yourself. So, I'm stuck with my items on the first dummy account.

Is there any fix for this? Can we get these items transferred?
  • Omar_Comin
    They are account bound. You can't mail any items or gold at all to your own characters, you need to use the bank to transfer items/gold.
  • Dominoid
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    Ya. If you grabbed them, you'll have to get out of cold harbor prison and use the bank in the first city.
  • invisiBeelity
    invisiBeelity
    Soul Shriven
    At the bank when I try to place the items it says "You can't do that now" in the top right of the screen, which is why I thought the items were character bound..
    Edited by invisiBeelity on March 30, 2014 12:40PM
  • p.anne.hodge_ESO
    p.anne.hodge_ESO
    Soul Shriven
    The items are listed as character bound as soon as you open the mail rather than the account bound that ZOS implies with their warning about putting them in the bank before deleting that character. It looks like it's an issue in the code flagging them as the wrong bound.
  • babylon
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    At the bank when I try to place the items it says "You can't do that now" in the top right of the screen, which is why I thought the items were character bound..

    Yeah this happened to me as well...the treasure map items are character bound it seems.

  • mitien
    mitien
    Soul Shriven
    How can i transfer them to other megaserver characters?
  • Gholem
    Gholem
    Soul Shriven
    To move the maps to your other character you'll have to open the map packs, extracting the maps from the container, and then move each individual map into the bank account. Suggestion: Only put the maps for the areas you will be exploring in the near future in the bank. Other wise you'll eat up a huge portion of your bank space on maps you won't be able to use for a while.
  • Jaelyna
    Jaelyna
    Soul Shriven
    Soo, I got into the game then couldn't zoom in at the character creation stage. I came on here and saw a post saying to simply make a throwaway character, then when you start a new one it fixes the issue. However on my first character in all the excitement I checked my messages and found the Explorer items plus the monkey for being in the beta had been sent. I grabbed everything thinking that it would be ACCOUNT bound, not CHARACTER bound, and I'd just be able to mail these items to myself and open them on my new character.

    So I've made a new character and logged back into the first character and realised you cannot just mail the items to yourself. So, I'm stuck with my items on the first dummy account.

    Is there any fix for this? Can we get these items transferred?

    I did the same thing when I started the game for the first time. I would have thought that something like that would have been account bound so that every character you made got to use it seeing as we did pre-ordered the game and all... Kind of sucks to only have it for ONE character and it might not even be for the character you want to really end up playing long term; just the one you started dabbling in the game with. Not to mention I didn't even know how to access my mail at the start of the game to know about the maps to the Coldharber treasure in the first place and not I can't do anything about it. Unless we go back at some point and I just don't know, but I accidentally sold the bag and didn't realize it so it's too late anyway.

    They should probably make the email much clearer as to the fact that that once we take them out they can't be transferred over to another character easily. Or they need to only put in the maps for the alliance that you are in at the time you start the game so you don't make the mistake in the first place. Preferably though, I would really hope that the issue is either fix it so that it is really 'Account bound' so that every Character gets the same package or they need to have a way to make it so they all have a way to move them easily between the characters. (And make it so that they can't be sold or easily gotten rid of without realizing that you are doing it...)
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