Guild Wars 2

Would it be possible to allow weapons/armor that are identical to stack. For example, between Cobalt, Monsoon, Coldsnap and Final Rest they take up an entire 30 slot bank tab. It would be much nicer if they only took up 4 slots instead.

Now I understand that if you mod them they are no longer identical and should therefor each take up a different slot but in their pristine form they are the same.

Yes I know I could sell the duplicates or put them on other Alts but:

1. I would rather sell them when it most adventitious to do so and not necessarily right now
2. I already have them on my alts as needed. For example anybody who can wield a sword has a Cobalt in their bags, since they lightup dark areas so it is a no brainer but still I have a bunch in the bank.

Constructive Thoughts?

In an effort to ward off the moochers, no I am not giving them away.

Then why would you buy more bank space?

Already have it maxed at 12 soooo…

Buy more bag space for each character. You aren’t thinking of the bigger picture = GEMS.

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

Now I understand that if you mod them they are no longer identical and should therefor each take up a different slot but in their pristine form they are the same.

This is propably the main reason why they dont do it and everything that can change binding, wont be stackable.
Otherwise you will need 2 item codes for every item and I guess that will need alot of work time.

As a high volume trader and investor, storage space of course is an issue for me, so i would love for gear in general to be stackable. If they were stackable, you would find alot more investors being active in those markets because we can now store 250 of one weapon in 1 slot and wont have to commit a full guild bank for it.

I guess the exotics you mentioned are dropping from the champ bags in silverwastes, so all their prices are down atm. The only real tip i can give you is to list them at a higher price than the current one and so store them on the tp. It has the disadvantage that you wont be able to monitor their prices over over time and decide to sell them when the price is right but it also has the advantage of you selling them when there is a huge sudden price spike and you are not online at that time.

That would require the work to make sure that same items with different sigils/runes don’t stack and rewrite what’s in the other ones and items that are bound don’t stack and bind everything or unbind things that should be bound.

Plenty of room for bugs that is entirely unnecessary. It’s your choice to hoard, you figure out how you can hoard. Don’t ask them to risk breaking the game more because you don’t want to.

I don’t really care if identical weapons or armor stack. What I would like to see is salvage kits and gathering tools stack to the same quantity that you purchase or make them. Like I have mystic salvage kit stacks, some with 25 some with 201. Same with black lion salvage kits. You should be able to stack them back up.

Wanze.8410: Yes good point, it does impact on larger quantity buying and selling.

Filaha.1678: It was just a question, “Would it be possible…” but thank you for your opinion on hording anyway.

I think that’s the whole point.

Someone manage to make 5000 gold just from buying a bunch of exotic armor before the ascended patch. That is with exotic armor not being to stack. I can’t imagine how much money he makes if the items stack.

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

Wanze.8410: Yes good point, it does impact on larger quantity buying and selling.

Filaha.1678: It was just a question, “Would it be possible…” but thank you for your opinion on hording anyway.

And I answered the question.

Given Anet’s track record for making things work right the first time, attempting to make it so that gear stacks only with X upgrade and won’t stack with bound things would reliably result in bugs where people lose upgrades because their item stacked with a duplicate which rewrote their upgrades, or people unbinding things previously bound because they stacked with an unbound duplicate and when split didn’t rebind.

It’s a lot of work to solve a problem that only exists because of your own making and your own choice.