Guild Wars 2

You know, as nice as the shared inventory slots are, but there’s something that annoys me about them, so much that I decided to put down my very first Forum Post in here after 3 years of actively playing Guild Wars 2, two things that annoy me to be specific:

1. The placement of the shared inventory slots

I think, most of us have put their salvage-o-matics in there, and if you have a big inventory, it’s a pain in the * when you have a lot of new loot in your inventory and you always have to scroll up and down and up and down and up and down through your inventory to salvage your stuff.

So I thought, why not make it a sidebar, that is unaffected by the scrolling of the inventory? I imagine it like this on the picture I added here (with my really bad photoshop skills, but I guess the idea should be clear?), so you can happily scroll up and down through your inventory when it’s big and still have fast and quick and comfortable access to your shared inventory that wouldn’t be affected by scrolling anymore.

2. Permanent Tools

As useful as these are in combination with the shared inventory slots, so I never ever again need to buy tools, I PERMANENTLY forget to “put them back” after use, and of course this is a fault of my own and maybe someday I could get used to it….it really get’s old after a while when you change character, have to change back to unequip the tools there and then change back again to equip them on the charater you wanted to play now…….so, wouldn’t shared / account wide tool slots for stuff like this be nice as well?

It would make the shared inventory slots even smoother and more fun to use as they already are.

Looking forward to your feedback

Dude…. resize your inventory window, that is so small—no wonder you have to scroll. I just combine it all into one window, wayyyyy easier. Also, click the gear and merge the backpacks, saves you loads of trouble.

They won’t make the tools account wide as that would give weight to the idea that duplicates should be refunded.

For salvaging items in your inventory, in the search bar just type “req”. You can then hover the cursor over the first items and each salvage will shift the next item to that location.

You can also type “rare” in the search bar to display just the items that are rare.

Ugh. I really, really dislike the bags on the outside of the inventory look so, no thanks.

As for the permanent harvesting tools. I’d buy a set of account wide harvesting tool slots if ANet sold them.

Greetings!

1. That’s maybe a nice idea for everyone not playing in HD, and/or wanting a small inventory window, and/or simply prefer the “big HuD” option, and/or don’t want to merge their bags (I dunno why, but okay).

2. It would be awesome if those slots would automatically equip tools. I like this “quality of life” idea pretty much.

But till that may or may not happen:

I don’t know if you already do this, but every of my characters has usual tools equipped all the time. This way i only have to do 3 double clicks on my permanent tools in my inventory to switch them with the usual tools pretty fast (And switch them back the same way). If you don’t do this yet i can really recommend to do it. No more drag’n’drop time wasting.

//VC

Justforvisit.3709:

1. why not make it a sidebar, that is unaffected by the scrolling of the inventory?

I wouldn’t mind the option, although I don’t think I’d use it. Be interesting to try.

Justforvisit.3709:

2. Permanent Tools …wouldn’t shared / account wide tool slots for stuff like this be nice as well?

I can’t imagine that this would be easy to implement, so I am not holding my breath. Instead, I just retrained myself to always swap tools after loading a new toon and reswap before changing characters. It’s really quick.

Although I know I’d love to never have to do it again, I’d prefer ANet devote their limited resources to other QoL improvements.

A sidebar… Why not… Or simply keep it on top but make the scrollable area start under the shared slots.

I almost feel like the devs have read my topic with the recent patch! Thanks sooo much guys! Though, one more thing would be awesomely nice as well:

Sir Mad.1092:

A sidebar… Why not… Or simply keep it on top but make the scrollable area start under the shared slots.

If it would’n scroll with the rest, that would really make it absolutely perfect!