Gathering tools shared slots
Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.
If you have any of the old soulbound infinite gathering tools you can speak to one of the Black Lion NPCs (armoursmith I think) to make them account bound so they can go in there.
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Please let it be available by default, with mastery or 1000 gems per each in the gem store, i dont honestly care, i will buy it straight away.
Yes, would be a nice. But I would not pay 3000 gems for it.
Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.
It would be more convenient if they could be used when they are in a shared-slot.
They should simply be possible to demultiply just like achievements points rewards work (Zenith skins etc). I mean you already pay a crapton of gem for the item. It’s really silly that you can’t even use that item with all your character when the game is soooo heavily pushing you to play an account and not only one character (at this point pretty much everything is account bound almost).
I mean yeah they want money but seriously, you don’t need to be that greedy. You can make poney flashy wings everybody will buy them you don’t need to ruin the comfort of play.
This has been requested for a long time, and it would be very nice to have 3 “account -wide gathering tool slots”. But I think ArenaNet’s answer to this is shared inventory slots.
And it’s pretty simple to do. Just put one of each type of infinite gather tool into a shared inventory slot. Then keep regular gather tools on all your characters.(I’d use orichalcum or whatever is the highest tool that character can use) When you log into a character, make a habit of clicking in each of the infinite tools in the shared inventory slots, then verify that the regular tools are now showing. Now you’re good to gather. Then before you log out of each character, click on each of the regular tools in the shared inventory slots, and make sure that the infinite tools are showing, Now log out and they will be available for the next character. It comes down to making a habit of swapping tools each time you log in and log out. And you’ll probably mess up sometimes and waste a few charges on the regular tools, or leave them on a character that you’ve logged out of. But it’s a simple thing to fix. And if you equip high-tier regular tools on each character, it won’t matter much if you do make a mistake and end up with the regular tools for a while. I used to do this with gather tools in the bank, and shared inventory slots makes the process much easier.
The problem is, very often i just forget which one of my 9 characters has specific gathering tool on them so i have to go through all of them, unequip tool, move it to shared slot, switch character, equip, rinse and repeat. It’s just so annoying especially in the game with so many QoL features in it.
If I log into the last one played and I don’t feel like playing that one today then I move the tools over to the shared slots, of which I save 3 empty just for that. Then I log into the char I do want to play and then double click to have them appear right where they can be used. Takes just a minute or so to do.
It’d be nice, but then they’d have to deal with the “Omg I bought 26 sets of tools, I demand a refund!” thing that will inevitably occur.
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It would be more convenient if they could be used when they are in a shared-slot.
True, but I am already doing that with salvage things, and I go through them A LOT! So much so that I finally bought the infinite salvage kits.
So, I’m thinking even ANet will profit from this idea. But, it has to be somewhat expensive. If they were too cheap, it would undercut their other sales of some items.
The problem is, very often i just forget which one of my 9 characters has specific gathering tool on them so i have to go through all of them, unequip tool, move it to shared slot, switch character, equip, rinse and repeat. It’s just so annoying especially in the game with so many QoL features in it.
Occasionally I forget where my gathering tools are (and other items). I use gw2efficiency.com to look for things. It has a search feature.
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ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.
But you can’t use them from there, so it isn’t a convenient “solution” at all.
OR, just make them work from inventory instead of having to be equipped. Boom, put them into shared slots and leave them there forever.
Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.
But you can’t use them from there, so it isn’t a convenient “solution” at all.
I find putting my only set of infinite gathering tools into a shared slot enormously more convenient than either:
- Clogging each character’s inventory with up to 11 slots worth of gathering tools.
- Purchasing multiple infinite tools.
Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.
But you can’t use them from there, so it isn’t a convenient “solution” at all.
I find putting my only set of infinite gathering tools into a shared slot enormously more convenient than either:
- Clogging each character’s inventory with up to 11 slots worth of gathering tools.
- Purchasing multiple infinite tools.
Right, but I think the topic’s point is that it would be undeniably more convenient to have account-wide shared slots for gathering tools; i.e., put an unbreakable tool in the mining slot, and everyone has immediate, permanent access to it as if it was in their normal mining slot on their Hero page.
Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.
But you can’t use them from there, so it isn’t a convenient “solution” at all.
I find putting my only set of infinite gathering tools into a shared slot enormously more convenient than either:
- Clogging each character’s inventory with up to 11 slots worth of gathering tools.
- Purchasing multiple infinite tools.
Right, but I think the topic’s point is that it would be undeniably more convenient to have account-wide shared slots for gathering tools; i.e., put an unbreakable tool in the mining slot, and everyone has immediate, permanent access to it as if it was in their normal mining slot on their Hero page.
Then the problem you will run into is those that buy multiple different sets on purpose just so they can match the set with the char. Are you then going to have separate tool slots for those that want multiple different ones and those that want just one set to share?
Luckily I’m still from the time perma tools costed 800 gems and were character bound…
I have little to gain by special slots, having 12 full sets of tools…
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Shared inventory slots are already available in the gem store and gathering tools already can be placed in them.
But you can’t use them from there, so it isn’t a convenient “solution” at all.
I find putting my only set of infinite gathering tools into a shared slot enormously more convenient than either:
- Clogging each character’s inventory with up to 11 slots worth of gathering tools.
- Purchasing multiple infinite tools.
Right, but I think the topic’s point is that it would be undeniably more convenient to have account-wide shared slots for gathering tools; i.e., put an unbreakable tool in the mining slot, and everyone has immediate, permanent access to it as if it was in their normal mining slot on their Hero page.
Then the problem you will run into is those that buy multiple different sets on purpose just so they can match the set with the char. Are you then going to have separate tool slots for those that want multiple different ones and those that want just one set to share?
Sure, that would be one of a few options: have account-wide slots in conjunction with the normal slots as they exist right now (individual to each character), and have the normal slots take priority over the account-wide slots if they’re filled.
A more simple approach quite common among other MMOs (WoW, Rift, TSW, et cetera) is to allow each character to produce a copy of the account-wide item. In Warcraft, you open the Collections window, and in TSW, you open the “Delivered Items” window. From there, you can claim a duplicate of any purchased account-wide items for the character you’re on.
ArenaNet could make it even easier by adding a “Gathering Tools” menu alongside Gliders/Miniatures/Outfits/et cetera, and allow you to choose per character from there.
I don’t think it’s something ArenaNet needs to rack their brains over, because quite a few games already have systems in place that can (or could, in GW2’s case) accommodate account-wide items while still giving the user the choice to use what they want per character.
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I don’t think it would be totally unfair if it worked as follows:
Buying any infinite gathering tool comes with one consumable item, similar to a “bag slot expansion” that you can consume on any character of your choice.
The “Gathering slot expansion” allows you to use any infinite tool skin you have unlocked on your account. It also allows you to choose one “enrichment” that has been previously mentioned on this threads, such as Sprockets or UM.
This wouldn’t discourage sales of gathering tools, because the slots will only unlock on one character of your choice, per tool set, and it solves the annoying issues of not being able to choose the skins you find aesthetically pleasing because they don’t provide the gathering bonus.
I think this would be an amazing change and it would actually probably promote sales of more infinite gathering tools so it’s a win for Anet.