Guild Wars 2

I just upgraded my unbreakable tools to account wide and bought three shared slots. The current system seems rather clumsy though. I have 9 toons and I swap between them often. It is very easy to forget to unequip the gathering tools before I swap. Would it be possible in future to auto equip/unequip shared tools when changing toons?

ps. I did do a search for this. Sorry if I missed something.

It’s cumbersome at first, but it will quickly become habit to always equip when logging in and unequip when logging out a toon.

Give it another week, and you won’t even be thinking about it anymore. Possibly even sooner.

~EW

edit: if you’re not doing it yet, then I recommend buying your toons the highest lvl tools they can use. Put your unbreakable tools into the shared slots, and equip your toons with the normal tools. Then it’s only a matter of double-clicking the unbreakable tools in your shared inventory slots to equip/unequip them to your toons, instead of having to bring up the hero tab to equip/unequip. Saves a lot of time.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

It’s cumbersome at first, but it will quickly become habit to always equip when logging in and unequip when logging out a toon.

Give it another week, and you won’t even be thinking about it anymore. Possibly even sooner.

~EW

Yep! I don’t even have shared inventory slots yet (except for the one that came with the level 80 booster), and I’ve trained myself to unload those unlimited harvesting tools at every character swap.

I’m working for, and looking forward to, getting at least 3 shared inventory slots just so I don’t have to go to a bank whenever I want to change characters.

~sigh~ Someday….

Before HoT I bound “J” to loot pickup. I probably only lost 4% or so of my loot. I wouldn’t like to go back. It’s inelegant and inefficient. I remember to swap out my gathering tools 90% of the time. Maybe I’ll get as high as 96% after a while. But how hard would it be to auto-equip/unequip. This is basic stuff that, for several thousand gems, we shouldn’t have to think about.

It’s a shared inventory slot, not a shared gathering tool slot.

There are actually people who bought multiple sets of tools so they don’t have to swap.

Most people would not expect shared trinkets or weapons, why expect that the gathering tools are shared (without swapping to account wide slots first)?

Dreamslayer.7659:

Most people would not expect shared trinkets or weapons, why expect that the gathering tools are shared (without swapping to account wide slots first)?

That’s not really a good analogy. Who actually wants the exact same trinkets and weapons on every character? You can’t even use the same weapons every character. Trinkets and weapons are easy enough to get separately for each char. Gathering tools on the other hand make perfect sense to share across all characters. If trinkets and weapons had to be purchased from the gem store for 1000 gems each we’d be having this same discussion about those.

I’m gonna dig this up again. Can I please dedicate 3 shared inventory slots to my account wide gathering tools? It’s why I bought the slots. I’m heartily sick of having to guess which toon I forgot to divest of the tools before I logged off. C’mon ANet, you know this makes sense.

gitflap.9031:

I’m gonna dig this up again. Can I please dedicate 3 shared inventory slots to my account wide gathering tools? It’s why I bought the slots. I’m heartily sick of having to guess which toon I forgot to divest of the tools before I logged off. C’mon ANet, you know this makes sense.

No problem, just put the gathering tools in the shared slots when you switch toons. Problem solved.

gitflap.9031:

I’m gonna dig this up again. Can I please dedicate 3 shared inventory slots to my account wide gathering tools? It’s why I bought the slots. I’m heartily sick of having to guess which toon I forgot to divest of the tools before I logged off. C’mon ANet, you know this makes sense.

I agree

gitflap.9031:

I just upgraded my unbreakable tools to account wide and bought three shared slots. The current system seems rather clumsy though. I have 9 toons and I swap between them often. It is very easy to forget to unequip the gathering tools before I swap. Would it be possible in future to auto equip/unequip shared tools when changing toons?

ps. I did do a search for this. Sorry if I missed something.

I just wish they would do the unbreakable tools as skins that could be changed out with skins you’ve unlocked. When they released the regular set of unbreakable tools I thought they might do this. I have gem store purchased tools across half my characters. It would be nice to be able to set the skin animation I wanted to use or just have random effects for unlocked skins.