Guild Wars 2

Currently, gathering tools have to be moved between characters through the bank if you want to use them on other characters. I’m sure for people with lots of alts this can be a bit tedious.

I know this isn’t a new suggestion, but what I’d suggest is that once you buy an infinite gathering tool, it unlocks that certain gathering for all your characters (similar to gliding).

Some people will say that doing so would be giving too much convenience, as well as resulting in lost sales by Anet. However, as someone who enjoys the animations (and has bought several more tools just for the effects), I think having the ability to choose an effect on said gathering would counterbalance the loss of sales by people who just buy one set. I can’t imagine someone buying more than two sets of gathering tools right now, but I think being able to choose the effects on the fly would give much more incentive to buy the different gathering tools- because fashion wars, amirite?

With mining picks I’d reckon there are lost sales because the Watchwork Mining Pick currently has advantages over the other picks. By allowing the ability to change the effects (and retain the bonuses supplied) other options will be much more attractive (I’m looking at you, Firefly Mining Flute!).

Although I know it probably doesn’t touch their list of priorities right now, I think it’d be a reasonable change and would potentially bring more income for them.

thank