Guild Wars 2

As I’m playing, I’m noticing a lot of little annoyances that seem to hold the game back. Just thought I’d hop on here to post them, you guys tell me what you like or don’t like.

Traits/Utility/Gear Switching

It’s pretty annoying that when I want to switch from doing WvW to running dungeons or something, to be optimal I have to switch out gear pieces, respec my traits, and redo my utility skills. Why not either, a) let us set up multiple builds and switch between them on the fly (maybe only in cities), or b), have WvW have a separate build from PvE that you switch to automatically, kinda like sPvP?

Mini Pets

You guys designed all these awesome little pets, but they don’t get used because they keep getting sent back to the bank, and you have to put them back out every single time you load an area. Why not let you “equip” a pet on your Hero screen, so that he won’t be banked when you deposit collectibles, and have him automatically be summoned? Maybe disable that equip slot for WvW to lessen the amount of clutter in the world.

Free Travel to Home City

Everyone already uses Heart of the Mists to go back to LA for free, why not let us free travel to a city? Maybe make it so that traveling to your race’s home city is always free, so that LA gets less overflows, and the other cities get some use? Or, just let us pick a city to call our home city, to travel to for free?

City Clothing

You should add an option to, if the player chooses, automatically switch to town clothes upon entering a city. Like mini pets, it’s another cool idea that gets wasted, because no one ever uses it.

BLTP Already Known Search

In other MMOs, you can filter out things you’ve already learned, but if, say, in GW2 I wanna browse new dyes, I have to search through all the dyes that I already have. You should let us filter those out, it would make the trading post a lot easier to navigate. Also, filtering by Heavy/Medium/Light armor would be great for finding items.

Shared Gold Between Characters

Why not have 1 big gold pool between all of our alts? When you realize you need gold on an alt, currently you have to log out, log in on your main, send the gold, and then log back into the alt you were playing. Why not make gold account wide like laurels?

Sell Directly From Collectibles Tab

When I want to sell a bunch of the collectible crafting mats, I go through and move all of them to my bag, and then sell them all from there. Why not just add “Sell on BLTP” to the menu while they’re in the bank? The option to buy more is already there, it would just make selling stuff you don’t need faster so you can get back to playing the game.

I’m sure that there’s some stuff that I forgot, but these little things have been bugging me, and I think that going through and doing all of these smaller fixes would improve the QoL for players and make the game a lot more user friendly.

@OP

Mini Pets
I ended up selling mine on the TP once I realised there was no way to keep them on me (apart from using an invisibility bag). Mini pets are a nice idea, but their implementation leaves a lot to be desired.

City Clothing
As it stands, you can assign a hotkey to switch between gear and clothes. Just assign one and use that when you enter a city. At the moment, town clothes are largely a waste of time as you can’t acquire any of the clothing the other townsfolk wear and you simply look the same as every other player unless you hand over gold/cash for gems.

Shared Gold Between Characters
I just use the bank for that. I keep an average of 10g in there in case I need it for any of my alts.

All good suggestions. Like uknortherner, I deposit all of my money into my bank vault trying to leave characters with at least 10 silver to cover basic repairs and waypoint costs.
However, this doesn’t mean this is the optimal method for managing gold.
Your suggestion would definitely improve the game.
+1ed

Mini pets:
You should get used to using invisible bags. Honestly, they’re your best friend. If you want to play this game seriously (even to have fun), then you’re going to want to have every possible weapon [combination] for your profession. Seeing those items pop up while selling puts me on my nerves, so that’s where invisible bags come in. Same thing for foods and other armor sets.

Nowadays, I run around with 6 armor sets at all times. I also have every possible weapon combination and multiple weapons on myself at all times (carrying around ~12 swords, too). Why? Because it’s a game and I want to have fun, and that’s how I do it.

How do I fit all that stuff? Lots of invisible bags.

Shared Gold:
Your bank gold will be used when using a waypoint if you don’t have enough on your person. It will also ask if you want to use the gold in your bank as you waypoint as a precaution. Not 100% sure about repairs. Buying items from NPC’s requires the gold to be on your person, as well as using the TP.

As for making it an account-wide currency, there needs to be a line between accounts and characters. I feel like the gold is fine where it’s at. What if I want to RP with a character and have it be a poor character? What if I want to challenge myself and have a character that never uses from all my other characters gold/items? Both of those are a bit hard if I have to share gold.

+1ed
about research in tp also il lacks for the back gear option, so there is no way to do it unless you know the name of the gear you need.

i would share all currencies, gold is almost shared through the use of bank, so are fractal currencies and dungeon tokens (it is a pain sometimes though). most of all i would share karma. so i can finally be over with all karma jugs and karma booster i have and i don’t get the feeling i wasted them!