Guild Wars 2

Well, I’m sure this isn’t a new topic, but I couldn’t exactly find what I was looking for via search. So…

Ever since the Lost Shores event came and went, I have had this constant wish for the collection tab to be improved hopefully soon. As it stands, the newer items from the event (Passiflora, Karka Shells) are not able to be sent to the collections tab. They currently sit in my character’s inventory due to my limited bank space at the moment.

However this isn’t my only little problem. There is also the fact there are other crafting mats, such as the Mad King Event’s items and even things that have been in the game since the beginning, rare mats. I basically have about two of my bank slots dedicated to these items and overflow from my collection. Considering the December event is just around the corner, I’m soon going to need to store more mats somewhere.

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I would like to see said items have their own collection tabs sometime in the near future. This is my proposed idea for the above:

—(Special) Event Tab
>> (Candy Corn?), Plastic Fangs, Skulls, Nougats, Winter Crafting mats, etc.
This tab would house the seasonal event items.

—Rare Crafting Components Tab
>> Ectos, Slivers, Lodestones, Cores, etc.
This tab would house all rare quality and higher items.

—Tokens Tab
>> Badges of Honor, Fractal Relics, etc.
More a maybe for me, but perhaps a collection tab for dungeons and WvW currencies might be useful as well.

As for most of the Lost Shore items, they should eventually be given tabs in their respective areas in cooking and gemstone areas we already have since karka land is here to stay.

I couldn’t agree more, this is a very frustrating problem for me too. Why create new mats with no where to put them? Why are yellow mats not given a collecion slot? We have to farm thousands of Badges and Tokens but until we use them they’re just backpack clutter…..

To me this seems like either bad planning or a way to encourage people to buy more bank space, which also isn’t very cool.

Likewise, good idea. But any good idea has to evolve to maintain it’s usefulness.

The collection bank is great, but if Anet don’t continually update as they continue to add more crafting content and related items to the game, it will end up becoming a mark of poor ongoing game development/planning.

First you guys should realize most games don’t have collection tabs at all. So just having those is already saving up tons of bag space. The deposit collectibles feature is unheard of. Besides that, ongoing development is required but to an extent.

Don’t forget intermediary item slots (particularly for cooking).

I’d love to see the event items get their respecitve slots. The new mini-pets received new slots and it should be the same for every new crafting item / collectable.

I’d also like to see slots for the special crafting materials like ‘Onyx sliver’ etc.

On a related note I would throw money at the gem store if I could increase the stack size over 250 as well. Like with bank slots, I should be able to buy more ‘collection tabs’ by increasing the maximum allowed stack size.

marnick.4305:

First you guys should realize most games don’t have collection tabs at all. So just having those is already saving up tons of bag space. The deposit collectibles feature is unheard of. Besides that, ongoing development is required but to an extent.

Don’t misunderstand me, I think the collections tab is a great idea and the fact that I can send collectables to the bank from my backpack was a great feature and one that other games should emulate. However, as someone has already pointed out, if it doesn’t evolve with the content then it becomes less useful.

It only makes sense that if you plan on adding extra slots for the new mini pets then you would also add slots for the new crafting materials…I mean thats the whole point of the collections tab right?

I agree 100%. I have bought more bank space, and I need to buy even more for these materials and intermediate crafting items. An expanded collection tab is a must.

I agree. Badges of Honor would be rather useful as would the rest of this.