Guild Wars 2

As you know, if you lose your headgear or your miniature Rytlock for any reason, they are lost forever.
It doesn’t matter the reason. It could be a glitch in the transmutation system that strips the appearance when you try to transmute it, or your niece deleting the stuff while you have an emergency that makes you go AFK without even closing the game. The reason is irrelevant.

The point is, they could be gone forever, and they should not.

So this is an idea that will fix that issue relatively quickly, and also improve the home instance.
This will allow players to retrieve any of those items if they ever lost them for whatever reason, and will completely solve the issue of lost Miniature Rytlocks.

Appearance
Each character, in their own home instance will get a “Mememto Box” object.
“Mememto Box” is just the generic name for them all, and the name of the idea, in actuality, the name and placement would vary depending on storyline.
This box will be an object that once used, will open a “shop” that, much like Kimmes the historian, has different items depending on who uses it.
The Memento Box will also have an map icon indicating where it is, which is also where your house is or where you last slept before the start of your story. Most of the objects that could be used already exist in the world:

• Human noble: Manor hill. A chest by your bed.
• Human commoner: Andrew’s Inn or Cottage Bend, also a chest by your bed.
• Human street rat: A chest in Cottage Bend or a hidden stash in some boxes in Rooks row.
• Charr: A hidden stash in a plant holder by a bed.
• Asura: A drawer or chest in one of the resting cubicles (you notice they have a floating hammock).
• Norn: One of the chests by a bed.
• Silvary: Somewhere in Dreamer’s Terrace. I really have no idea, since they seem to have only tables, lamps and beds. I’ve seen some wooden cases in other places, so that could be placed somewhere in there.

Contents
This is what the shop will initially have:

• Your chosen piece of equipment (e.g.: Elementalist headpiece, necromancer face pant, warrior/guardian shoulders or helm, etc), if you chose any, for free.
• All your other initial gear for free: chest, legs, boots and weapon.
• The starting town clothes.
• Additionally, if you had pre-purchased, also the Celebration Hat.
• Also if you had pre-purchased, it will have a Hero’s Band. It’ll be made Unique so you can’t equip two.
• If you had purchased Digital Deluxe (DD), it will have a Miniature Rytlock for free.
• (Optional) Additionally, if you have DD unlocked, the Golem Banker could be here too, for a karma or laurel price. Something between 10000 and 50000 karma or 10 laurels. Why the big price? To keep other banking sources useful and this less of an advantage. If you really want to keep using the golem banker, it’ll cost you, if you just want to access the bank, there’s the consumables in the store and from playing.
• (Optional) Even further, some steps in the storyline and some things you do could add items to the memento box.
• (Optional) It could even have the Hall of Monuments Portal Stone, so it’s easier to find than in Lion’s Arch, as your “Mememto Box” would have a map icon.

All items from this ‘shop’ would be unlimited, soulbond, unsellable, unsalvagable and unusable in the mystic forge, like HoM rewards, most of them free, although as stated above, some would have karma/laurel prices.

Additionally, if Housing is ever added, and players can change where their house is, the Memento Box would be moved to that new house.

Interesting ideas. I’ll quibble about the ring, since when you make a character the ring goes in your mailbox. Just leave it there and pick it up on another character, voila, two rings. At least it worked that way at launch, confusing me mightily when I had 3 rings in the mail after quickly making a few characters to save names.

I support anything that lets unique skins and vanity items be preserved.

Added starting town clothes to the list.

I totally agree with this proposition, it would make the game much better and my mind would be more quite knowing that everything i bought or earned is safe !

Subbing this, I’ve lost my Rytlock and ANet asked me to “stay tuned” on the forum -_- Now, the game is almost fixed, the forum is open, give us back our items!

definitely something to look into. it would be very simple to have the account info of what the player has done and adjust the chest accordingly. it would perhaps be just as simple to put it in the hall of monuments in a chest which can be looted endlessly.

I’d like to bring back this issue, as many people deleted their Elementalist initial headgear because it was bugged and the visual effect didn’t transfer when transmuted, but now it works again.

Also, I edited the first post to reflect the existence of Unique items and Laurels, and refreshed it a little bit.

Id like for this to be put in game. Not many headpieces fit a necromancer other then the starting ones, and i can’t remember what had happened to it.

+1

Added the Hall of Monuments Portal Stone to the list of items the Mememto Box may contain.

I can’t believe I forgot hat one. Since this ‘Vendor’ would have a map icon, it’ll be easier to find than the pirate merchant one in Lion’s Arch.