Extremely smart feature introduced by NCSoft! (this was sarcasm of course)

Maybe someone from you don't know but *any* char can identify unidentified items - even lvl 1 char can identify R grade stuff.
And now here comes the good stuff - once you identify it (and it becomes bound) you cannot do anything with it - you cannot even crush it for crystals. The only way to free the slot is to dispose of it into dustbin.
Of course the feature would not be so smart if there was some kind of warning or such - that's why there isn't. Just accidentally missclick when you send your items to your dwarf and your items are gone forever.

probably not ncsoft is stupid, but you ? ...

Maybe someone from you don't know but *any* char can identify unidentified items - even lvl 1 char can identify R grade stuff.
And now here comes the good stuff - once you identify it (and it becomes bound) you cannot do anything with it - you cannot even crush it for crystals. The only way to free the slot is to dispose of it into dustbin.
Of course the feature would not be so smart if there was some kind of warning or such - that's why there isn't. Just accidentally missclick when you send your items to your dwarf and your items are gone forever.

vendor, or warehouse 'till you can use it... or better yet, get an unbind scroll.

simples :3

you cannot even crush it for crystals.

Umm yes, you can as long as you meet the correct level for the grade of item but you can still crush as I just crushed 50 bound items sent to my dwarf

What is horrible though is from 50 armour pouches all 50 items were bound, seems the "luck" rate to get normal item as well as the drop rate for pouches has been increased

So what did you mistakenly double-click on a level 1 to make you decide to come complain about what should be a rather obvious system?

You cannot crush R grade if you are not R grade yet.

The short story - you can identify higher lvl items but cannot crush them. You should not be able to identify them if you cannot use them in any way.

sell to store

While you cannot blame NCSoft for your own stupidity, I would see some sense in only allowing a char identify items he/she can use, just to avoid these situations...just as crystal smashing works...

If its a low item you can cristalize it with enchant scrolls(wich are near to free this days) and if its a high lvl one just awaken then crush it? if its an alt just npc it.

While you cannot blame NCSoft for your own stupidity, I would see some sense in only allowing a char identify items he/she can use, just to avoid these situations...just as crystal smashing works...

The problem is that almost any toon at any level can equip almost any item. You can "use" an R grade weapon at level 1. Not well, but you can use it.

QQ Moare !

When my friend first awakened, he asked me to loan him some adena to buy his Immortal heavy breastplate armour.

So I bought the item from the AH - I think it was about 30m at the time (too expensive by today's standards but cheap on the day).

As I was waiting for him to TP into Giran, I thought, "I wonder what this looks like on me"

click-click *identifying*

AAAAAAAAArgh

It just goes to show, almost 7 years in L2 and still a noob at heart.
That was the first time I saw R crystals :)

(it would be nice for esc to cancel the identify skill though)

Esc does cancel the identifying process.

Esc does cancel the identifying process.

Confirmed +1. Did this today out of panic when clickin on an uni item, which stayed uni after spaming ESC.