Guild Wars 2

Salvage Kits should have the ability to stack just like any other item.

I don’t understand why they cannot combine or stack. They need to be recreated as the correct object type so they have the property of being stackable. That way you could for example make a stack of 100 kits and carry that with you for long journeys.

it’s because you can make mystic salvage kits which have 250 uses. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Salvage_Kit that is how to make them.

also the gem store o-matics

Some of us don’t want to waste time farming the mats to make the kits when towns sell Mastery Kits for only 15s. It makes more sense just to allow all kits to stack.

25 Mastery kits for 15 silver is instant, can you say the same about the other two methods you people suggested?

Icethorn.6570:

Some of us don’t want to waste time farming the mats to make the kits when towns sell Mastery Kits for only 15s. It makes more sense just to allow all kits to stack.

25 Mastery kits for 15 silver is instant, can you say the same about the other two methods you people suggested?

The feature you suggest exisists as the gem store “o matic” items. Its a gem store item that would become pointless with adding stacking of salvage kits. Therefore Anet will not add your suggestion. You can argue all you want but that is logically how it goes.

Also mystic kits don’t require farming.

Icethorn.6570:

Some of us don’t want to waste time farming the mats to make the kits when towns sell Mastery Kits for only 15s.

Farming mats? You literally go buy 3 salvage kits and throw them in the MF with some of the MF stones that anyone who has been playing for a while has hundreds of lying around.

Anyways, the current system is fine. I carry around ~125 salvage kits per character and never really burn through more then 2 stacks at a given time

Fermi.2409:

I carry around ~125 salvage kits per character

Wat

How do you even have space left to loot stuff to salvage?

Kasima.8143:

Fermi.2409:

I carry around ~125 salvage kits per character

Wat

How do you even have space left to loot stuff to salvage?

Obviously means 5 regular kits 5×25=125

Really though, use the mystic forge kits.

Why not improve the code to the game instead of making a lame excuse saying to use a completely different item (that costs gems). Think of this from a programming standpoint, it’s really simple to implement. You simply make the object a type that has the property isStackable and the max stack size of that object will be player’s maximum stack size on their account. If you want I can write the code for you, it’s something any well versed dev could do in a day.

Also, that’s not the only item that is not stackable. There are a list of few others which do not share that property as well. This is probably because at one point these object types were older and did not conform to the new standard which by default has a maximum of 250. These objects should be converted as well.

Another example of such an object are the harvesting materials.

Harvesting Sickles, Logging Axes, and Mining Picks

All are these are of a class which does not have the isStackable property.
The objects should undergo type conversion in order to streamline their efficiency.

This is a standard programming practice, as someone who has been in the industry for many years, converting older objects can be a daunting task but always shows benefits in performance. Take pride in your product enough to care to make little changes like this, I urge you.

It’s not about code. It’s about convenience items and buying them with gems so Anet can make some $$$.

They don’t stack because Anet wants you to buy the gemstore items.
Mystic Kits are cheaper and have the same salvaging properties as Master kits, so they are really convenient.

Icethorn.6570:

Why not improve the code to the game instead of making a lame excuse saying to use a completely different item (that costs gems). Think of this from a programming standpoint, it’s really simple to implement. You simply make the object a type that has the property isStackable and the max stack size of that object will be player’s maximum stack size on their account. If you want I can write the code for you, it’s something any well versed dev could do in a day.

Yes, you’re 100% knowledgeable about GW2 is coded and how easy it is to make changes. Based on… what exactly? Oh right, nothing. You have no idea how things are implemented or how hard it would be to change things.

Fermi.2409:

Icethorn.6570:

Why not improve the code to the game instead of making a lame excuse saying to use a completely different item (that costs gems). Think of this from a programming standpoint, it’s really simple to implement. You simply make the object a type that has the property isStackable and the max stack size of that object will be player’s maximum stack size on their account. If you want I can write the code for you, it’s something any well versed dev could do in a day.

Yes, you’re 100% knowledgeable about GW2 is coded and how easy it is to make changes. Based on… what exactly? Oh right, nothing. You have no idea how things are implemented or how hard it would be to change things.

As someone who has been developing software for 20+ years and makes $200k annually with his own successful software company I do have some experience in the subject and common coding practices. If this game’s code is organized properly changing the data inside an object of that type of that object should not be a tremendous task. If you know how to create your own typecast method you know how to accomplish this task. For those that don’t I will spell it out for you.

Create a method that passes in the current object and uses inheritance to assume all current functionality.

In the new object add additional variables to allow the object’s stack limit size to be a function of the player’s account stack size.

Alternatively you could just cast the current object to a similar object type already present with newer code which allows stacking based on max stack size. I know you have some object like this because of how your current object array is setup.

Any junior dev should be able to accomplish this task. It’s not rocket science.

Whether it’s a technical issue, or some other reason, it still costs no Gems to make Mystic Salvage Kits. As much as you’d like Salvage Kits to stack, until they do, you could use these easily crafted Mystic Salvage Kits.

Good luck.

The design choice the devs implemented is convenience of taking only one inventory slot with a lot of charges but with a potential real world cost (3 Mystic Forge Stones needed for a 250 charge Mystic Salvage Kit) or fewer charges, occupying more inventory slots if you want to more charges but for purely in-game currency.

Doing what you suggest OP works out great for the player but not ANet who wants the 135-150 gems for the convenience. They decided that cosmetics and convenience are where they are going to make their income. Better that than a +5 sword of Pwned.