Guild Wars 2

It’s wonderful that a dye says “you already know this!” in the tooltip. However, it doesn’t tell you if you know it on an alt. That would be very handy when deciding whether to buy a dye, or if one should sell a nice one already known because all the alts have it (e.g., I like Iron so much all 4 of my played characters have it, but that’s the only one I can be sure all do).

So maybe at the bottom it could say in red “Known by Name, Name, Name.” I suppose that might be an issue if people get 20 alts but for those of us with a handful, it would save a lot of logging in and out. There are too many dyes to memorize who has what.

Or they could just make them all account bound when you learn them, so you don’t guess or need to know anymore!

Why not just keep track of who has what if you want all dyes on all characters? I understand the reasoning behind character based method, and at the same time I understand the reasoning behind it being account based. Either way it doesn’t matter to me which way it is. But I see no reason to complicate the game coding just to do something easily done outside of the game with a list. If there were to do anything they would make it account based as it would be less coding to do it. And since they decided that character based was the better experience I don’t see it being changed. I’m sure this was based on feedback early on. Since designing the game was mostly feedback driven. Feedback is still important to them but means more when it is something that is game breaking vs trivial. Perhaps even being a trivial thing if the community changes and a majority of people want it to be then perhaps it would be changed. But I still think the best option would be the keeping track with a list.

Gummy.4278:

Or they could just make them all account bound when you learn them, so you don’t guess or need to know anymore!

^ this!!! I don’t really understand why bank and mail etc is by account yet something small like armor dyes is per character.