Certs should be account bound.

I can't think of a good reason for them not to be. Can you?

They would have to change alot.

People would farm using 6 different characters

how can you farm with 6 at a time when you can only have one logged in?

I'm guessing you're sitting on a bunch of certs and want to make a BR1 with BR100 capabilities or increase the reward to 4th faction.

it's also because of starting a new char and not wanting to go through the tedious cert grind over again

That would make SC less viable and SC is how SOE makes money on this game. Let them.

You could farm 288 passive certs a day and do 30 achievements by using 6 characters.

nah, they shouldn't.

There will be too much 4th factioning if that happens. People at least stay with their mains, until they get REALLY REALLY FRUSTRATED with their server/faction.

Christ this. I haven't played in forever because I wanted a new character on the TR.

I don't care about certs being account-wide, I just want to pay SC to have my character moved to a faction I want on a server I want and named something else. The GMs already have the power to do this, this is FREE MONEY FOR SOE. Why aren't they doing it?

Ok, so cut passive certs to just your account, problem solved. Did you honestly think a change like this would keep everything the exact same?