I’m fairly new to the game, and have mostly played solo. Played with 3 friends today for a few hours with brand new characters, and I’m really confused about gifting limits.
I know the basics: if you’re in the same instance/zone when an item drops, you can trade, otherwise you need to use resonance (which drops kind of like shards, albeit with a low rate). But that’s not quite what we encountered.
The 4 of us did a few trades with no issue. But then 3 different times, we got the message that we need resonance to trade an item that dropped while all four of us were in the same zone/instance, all at the same time on my screen. Why?
I suspect there are some other limits at play I’m not aware of. Searching the forums I think I read that gifting is for drops only (not bought, crafted, gambled, etc) but this wasn’t that, this was a drop off a mob.
At one point, I couldn’t trade an item to Player A without it needing resonance, and then 15 mins later a diff item dropped and that one I could trade.
Are there other restrictions I’m missing?