Guild Wars 2

There are mumblings that ArenaNet may be changing the way that we get armor and weapon drops. The change would be getting unidentified drops instead of actual armor and weapons which can either be salvaged for mats or identified at a heart vendor. These unidentified drops are rumored to stack. This would be a very welcome change for inventory management and leaves me curious (if it is true) with a few questions:

1.) Will this just be for PoF maps or all of core Tyria and HoT zones?
2.) How high will these white/blue/green/(yellow?)/(orange?) stack?
3.) How will this be compromised so as not to make equipment bags obsolete?

It is just a rumor so it may not even be true. However, if it is I can’t see anyone not getting behind this change.

If that were a thing, and salvaging unidentified gear just granted you the materials instead of the runes/sigils, that could be a way of solving that issue people complained about.

unidentified ….

We going back to GW1 fun now.

I support this 1000% please make it happen!

Why would you want that garbage back, it was horrible in GW1.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Why would you want that garbage back, it was horrible in GW1.

because done properly it could do a lot and add another lever for our resident economist to play with.

Everything is getting salvaged anyway. Might as well save some space.

I find it interesting that people have longed complained about getting boxes and boxes within boxes. And here is a group of people applauding it.

The reason I’ve always preferred getting boxes is that they stack (I could do with 50% fewer variations in boxes, of course). I far prefer being able to wait to decide when I want to manage inventory.

TexZero.7910:

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Why would you want that garbage back, it was horrible in GW1.

because done properly it could do a lot and add another lever for our resident economist to play with.

Exactly, they can easily adjust the salvage rates of materials if they only need to adjust one item instead of thousands.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I find it interesting that people have longed complained about getting boxes and boxes within boxes. And here is a group of people applauding it.

The reason I’ve always preferred getting boxes is that they stack (I could do with 50% fewer variations in boxes, of course). I far prefer being able to wait to decide when I want to manage inventory.

Like don’t get me wrong i hate the russian nesting doll loot game. I’d prefer just straight up loot/liquid gold. However, since the precedence is already set we may as well refine it.

If having unidentified equip mean that they will be stacked based on their rarities, it will help saving up inventory space, so…
I support it! (if its true)

I would imagine they would not stack higher than 250, like most everything else.

I’m not sure what you mean by affecting equipment bags. Do you mean those specialized bags that only hold Rare, Exotic, etc? Are you asking if the stack would reside there, as opposed to in a regular bag?

No idea if it would be PoF-exclusive. I’d guess not as the new Unstable material salvage items are not limited to HoT…are they? I certainly receive them outside HoT maps. But, I do own HoT.

I got a unidentified armor drop in Dry Top (Green) came across this thread while googling for info in it so looks like you get them in core Tyria but can only ID them in PoF.