WHY IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO VENDOR MY ASCENDED WEAPONS AND GEAR? WHAT THE HELL?!?!
Anet, it is FAR too easy to accidently vendor your ascended weapons and gear. Please change it. It should not be possible to vendor an ascended piece as easy as it is to vendor a grey… I vendored my ascended longbow earlier this week, and you don’t even have a ticket system where I can ask a game dev. to get it back for. So, screw me I guess. It cost me about 100g for that longbow. At least!
All I am asking is for you to make a prompt that pops up and says “You are about to sell your ascended weapon, are you sure?” Then Yes/No.
Please change this.
Thanks,
A sad player out 99g+ and my Super Longbow(((.
EDIT: 99g because an Ascended Longbow is 1g when vendored. Awesome.
Why didn’t you use the buy back option after you realised you had sold it?
Alternatively take a few seconds to check each item as you’re selling things. I do it every single time and it really doesn’t take long.
One method is to sort your stuff out before you go to the vendor so everything you want to sell is at the top and everything you want to keep is in an invisible bag, or at least a separate bag so it’s clearly separated in the vendor list.
Another option is to quickly hover over each item before you sell it, so you can double check what it is before it sells.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
last remark… the bow is ~40 gold… maybe 50 with a expensive set of stats…
23 lvl 80’s, 9 times map, 4ele, 4ncr, 3war, 3grd, 3rgr, 2thf, 2msm, 1eng, 1 rev.
Been There, Done That & Will do it again…except maybe world completion.
Mmm, I’ve never had this problem, and I don’t have these swanky bags that hides stuff either. The colour or even the name of the item alone is enough for me to spot that I really shouldn’t vendor said item.
We’ve all made mistakes and some costlier than others. I’m sorry for what happened. You feel bad enough as it is.
I vendor a lot of stuff too and I’m constantly concerned I’ll do the same thing. Just a fraction of a second’s inattention and it’s done. And if you don’t realize it until a week later, that’s even more painful.
“Just don’t vendor your stuff.” Uhh thanks guys. I was selling things and then I must have logged off for the day and then you can’t buyback things after you already log. Yeah I check my buyback tab every time before I log now, but the loss is already done. You shouldn’t be able to vendor things of value that easily.
And yeah, 50g for the bow, but I’m saving for a legendary right now and every little bit of gold counts. Now I have to replace the bow and replace the gold I lost unnecessarily. It could be an easy fix.
“Just don’t vendor your stuff.” Uhh thanks guys. I was selling things and then I must have logged off for the day and then you can’t buyback things after you already log. Yeah I check my buyback tab every time before I log now, but the loss is already done. You shouldn’t be able to vendor things of value that easily.
And yeah, 50g for the bow, but I’m saving for a legendary right now and every little bit of gold counts. Now I have to replace the bow and replace the gold I lost unnecessarily. It could be an easy fix.
People have problems if there is a buy back value (like the OP) and others run into problems if there isn’t (“this item is bound and useless to me — ANet, please let me turn it into something valuable”). Some items can’t be deleted without typing out the name and other people find that burdensome. (PS to those people: shift-click the item, copy from chat, paste, and remove the brackets.)
ANet can only go so far in protecting us from ourselves and nearly every issue falls into the category of “well, I’ll never make that mistake again.” That is, this is a one-time issue that only affects a tiny portion of the community. I am not sure it’s worth the time to create, test, and run a script just to change all the values from a number to 0, especially since it’s not clear if this is universally beneficial.
Instead, I prefer that ANet leave some of the burden of protecting our valuables to… us. Use invisible/safe bags (can’t sell anything in them), divide your items before visiting a vendor, be careful when you are tired (or just don’t manage your inventory then), etc.
tl;dr I’m sorry you lost something valuable. As much as I sympathize, I don’t think that was ANet’s responsibility to prevent.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
2. Invisible bags are your friend. The contents of it won’t ever show up in a vendor.
3. Use the buyback feature if you do accidentally sell something. Always check the Buy Back tab before leaving the map, just in case.
4. Pay attention when you’re clicking at the merchant. I’ve never accidentally sold an orange or pink item because I see them, and I automatically pass over them.
(((.