Guild Wars 2

Small annoyance easily solved. As many of us do, I keep stacks of crafting materials in my bank. And for some reason when I craft “x” the crafting uses materials out of the stacks (that I deliberately put into my bank AS stacks) instead of materials in my collections… Can we get that reversed please? Draw material from the incompletely stacks within the collection BEFORE using materials out of bank? Didn’t it used to function that way anyways?

( bump or comment if you agree please =P )

That would be a very odd way of doing it though. It would annoy me much more to draw from collections before bank. That would then mean I’d have re-deposit stuff from the bank into the collections each time, since the stuff in my bank is overfill from the collections tab.

Unless I’m missing something?

Yeah, that’s counter intuitive TBH, it goes char→bank→collections, which is pretty much in order of how valuable the inventory real estate is, it shouldn’t go for colections first.

Fiddle Irk.9710:

Small annoyance easily solved. As many of us do, I keep stacks of crafting materials in my bank. And for some reason when I craft “x” the crafting uses materials out of the stacks (that I deliberately put into my bank AS stacks) instead of materials in my collections… Can we get that reversed please? Draw material from the incompletely stacks within the collection BEFORE using materials out of bank? Didn’t it used to function that way anyways?

( bump or comment if you agree please =P )

ANet commented on this in these very forums some time ago and their general take seemed to be that it was better to err on the side of reducing clutter first.

Whatever way they set it up would be counter-intuitive to someone: if they removed from collections first, there would be those trying to free up bank space that would be annoyed.

Alright, lets look at this for a second.

Inventory first, makes sense.

Bank second, this makes zero sense what so ever in any universe ever. ever.
Let me explain.
Bank space is storage (you know, like a bank)
Collections, is potential inventory space as I’m out and about, being able to deposit materials directly.
When a collection is full I can no longer deposit, and must go manually open collections, scroll to the mat in question, move it to inventory, go to bank tab, scroll to mat section, move mats to bank.
If I have mats in the bank I want to move to collections, right click, deposit.
No brainer really which direction is easier to accomplish.

As an example of why collections should empty first (or heck maybe for once make something a toggle?) I was recently doing a dungeon run.
In salvaging a few things to try to keep space open I ended up with silk scraps, gossamer scraps, mithril ore, ori ore, thick leather, and cured leather bits in my inventory that I couldn’t deposit because the collections were full.
Could I just craft a couple things to free up space?
No, I have to craft a few items, go to collections, move stacks to inventory, go to bank, scroll to partial stacks left after crafting, click and drag full stacks onto partial stacks to replenish them, then go back to my inventory and redeposit the now partial stacks back to collections.
All to be able to keep inventory slots free by depositing mats.
This is asinine

Space available in collections is 1000x more valuable than space in the bank.
Why bother even having a deposit feature if you’re just going to make a point of keeping the collection full?!
And I’m sorry but it’s just sooo much effort to right click deposit vs the reverse if that’s really how you want to use it.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Alright, lets look at this for a second.

Inventory first, makes sense.

Bank second, this makes zero sense what so ever in any universe ever. ever.
Let me explain.
Bank space is storage (you know, like a bank)
Collections, is potential inventory space as I’m out and about, being able to deposit materials directly.
When a collection is full I can no longer deposit, and must go manually open collections, scroll to the mat in question, move it to inventory, go to bank tab, scroll to mat section, move mats to bank.
If I have mats in the bank I want to move to collections, right click, deposit.
No brainer really which direction is easier to accomplish.

As an example of why collections should empty first (or heck maybe for once make something a toggle?) I was recently doing a dungeon run.
In salvaging a few things to try to keep space open I ended up with silk scraps, gossamer scraps, mithril ore, ori ore, thick leather, and cured leather bits in my inventory that I couldn’t deposit because the collections were full.
Could I just craft a couple things to free up space?
No, I have to craft a few items, go to collections, move stacks to inventory, go to bank, scroll to partial stacks left after crafting, click and drag full stacks onto partial stacks to replenish them, then go back to my inventory and redeposit the now partial stacks back to collections.
All to be able to keep inventory slots free by depositing mats.
This is asinine

Space available in collections is 1000x more valuable than space in the bank.
Why bother even having a deposit feature if you’re just going to make a point of keeping the collection full?!
And I’m sorry but it’s just sooo much effort to right click deposit vs the reverse if that’s really how you want to use it.

A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!

Sorry, but it had to be said, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way ._.
I’ve been using my bank to store mats for HoT (or leveling new alts if that turns out to be a bust, either way, they’re not supposed to be used yet). Every time I craft, though, they get taken out first and I have to go through a (comparative) hassle to fill those stacks again. Makes zero sense to me. I can work around it by just taking the mats I know I need out of the collections tab before I craft anything, but that’s just as much effort; it’s just a little bit less annoying because I’m doing it on purpose as opposed to being forced to replace missing mats in the bank to keep my collections tab available for deposits from the open world.

If there are advocates for both ways, a toggle would be great. Amazing. Divine, even.
Can we please have a toggle for this?

This has bothered me for a long time, for the reasons in the long post above. I’m obsessive about my bank organization and it drives me crazy to see stacks of less than 250 in my bank because it pulls from there first.

I fully agree to op, a change would be nice.

In case a change never might happen: You could use a personal guild bank and just put the 250 stacks in there.

What I don’t think folks are realizing and that I agree with the OP… IF I have a full stack in the collection, my spillover goes into my bank space. I too am OCD about partial stacks in the bank, but when I am out in the world collecting I want/need to be able to deposit to keep the space open on my person… I can’t deposit to my bank only to my collections.

Thus I think mats should be pulled from person, collection, then bank… so that my on person space is allowed to be decluttered when farming.