Guild Wars 2

I have been caught by this:

So far I have seen three types of the new item and experience boosters which have the exactly same icon but they have different times.

The one from the gem store and that drops from Black Lion chests lasts 2 hours.
The one that you buy with laurels lasts 30 minutes.
The one that you choose out of the one changed by booster powder lasts for only 20 minutes.

I was using the last one and kept wondering why they ran out so quickly. Then I noticed that the text say they have different times.

My point is… the text within the description is not enough to let people know that these are different boosters that last different times. You see the icon… you read the text once and from then on that icon represents the text that you read last. With no change of icon you wouldn’t normally re-read the text.

Does anyone else feel this way about it??

Nope, don’t feel this way about it. You could activate the item rarity in your inventory view.
If it is active you can see that the 20 min. / 30. min. booster have a white/blue line (sry don’t remember which color and can’t look it up ingame right now) around and the 2h a yellow rarity line.

Oh I see. Yes, I didn’t even notice the rarity was different as well. That would give it a second indication. Fair enough!

I disagree, that is totally unacceptable.
It’s deceptive, if it’s not the same item it needs to have either a different icon or a different name.

Hrm. I had another look and the one that you get to choose is also a green but it is 20 min and not 30. So the second indicator breaks down there.

The text beside it in the list from which you choose is yellow. This should indicate that it is the same as the gem store item booster. In this case the only indication is the text within the description.

The Laurel one changed with the last patch to 1 hour, I believe.

Mine still say 30 minutes.

Well, I haven’t visited the Laurel Vendor to examine the new Boosters, yet. Of course, this would not affect those previously purchased.

Good luck.

Maybe it is because you get 2 boosters for each laurel which would equal 1 hour together.