Hi! I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2 for 8 months now, and I just realized why I don’t use my minis/buy more. It all comes down to the inconvenience of keeping a mini in your inventory and needing to activate it manually whenever I log in/switch toons/etc.
I propose a Mini Management tab on your Hero page, accessible by an icon below the finisher tab (Labelled number 2. in the attached image). I used a pet collar icon in the image. The tab would open a page of minis separate from your collection page, where the entire mini collection would exclusively be. I think that minis should not necessarily be lumped in with the crafting materials, and with three groups of minis already present, there is plenty of content to justify its own tab.
I also propose (the all-important) Mini Equip slot on the main Hero page (labelled as number 1. in the attached image). It could be here, or on a different tab, but there ought to be an equippable slot where you can drag and drop a mini that you have withdrawn from your mini collection tab or just have in your inventory. This mini, when equipped, is now attached to the toon until unequipped and deposited into the account-bound mini management tab. Minis, while equipped, would always be summoned while the toon is not swimming, and would not unsummon because of a logout, or going through a portal.
-More convenient mini management means that virtually every player will have at least on toon that uses minis, and will encourage mini collection
-More mini collectors will be able to easily show off their prized minis with very little upkeep
-Increased mini sales will increase gem sales, offsetting the initial cost of setting up these tabs and providing increased demand in minis for the future
TLDR, Minis that you can easily equip and manage will be shown off by more players and more players will then collect minis.
Thanks for reading!
