Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if this is the right place to ask / suggest this, but am I the only one who thinks the ability to preview Gemstore items needs improving a bit?

It seems on the ‘Style’ tab things are fine, click an item in the list and you can see the preview. But if I type an item in the search to find it by name I can’t see any option to preview it, likewise if I look at Glider skins in the ‘upgrade’ or ‘specials’ tabs, you can’t actually preview them to see what they look like.

I know you can preview gliders through the Hero panel (which is what I had to do), but would it really be so hard for them to add an option to preview any item you click on in the Gemstore? Just seems that would make life a lot easier for people trying to buy things. Or is there already some way of doing this and I’ve just missed it?

On a slightly off topic second question, all of the various harvesting tools on the store, am I right in thinking you don’t have to wait at the node to harvest it once you use them? As I’ve seen a few people on game just run up, trigger the tools animation then run off straight away.

killermanjaro.5670:

On a slightly off topic second question, all of the various harvesting tools on the store, am I right in thinking you don’t have to wait at the node to harvest it once you use them? As I’ve seen a few people on game just run up, trigger the tools animation then run off straight away.

To answer the “slightly off topic” portion, different harvesting tools have different lengths of character animations. Some are shorter, so they don’t lock the player in one spot for long. Others are the same as traditional tools, and lock you in for the same amount of time.

To respond to your main point, yes, I would love a better way to interact with the gem store items! When new items come out, I find myself racing to get the skin ID code from the API, or asking people who’ve bought it to ping the item just to see it in the preview window.