Guild Wars 2

People with lots of alts know the problem: Every time you want to play another character, you need to visit a bank, put your ascended gear in there, change characters, move to a bank again and get the gear — only to realize that you forgot the backpiece. Give it a week and your stuff as spread across all your characters and you don’t know where you left your sword.

Here’s another problem: If you share gear between characters, they will all look the same. You cannot even adjust the colors just for one character. A similar problem arises with runes and sigils.

This is why I suggest to add an option – via an NPC or in a different way – to copy an account bound item. There should be a small fee associated with this, about 5g seem in order. Ideally the copy should have the same upgrades as the old one, but as with the mystic forge recipe to change the stats of an item, they don’t have the tech for this yet. This way you can move the copy to another character, transmute and dye it without affecting your other characters. Furthermore, you can change the upgrades.

Of course there have to be some restrictions on the copies: There should be a flag on those items that prevents them from being placed in the mystic forge or sold to a vendor. Furthermore, all copies need to be removed, once you loose the original item.

So this is not easy to implement, but it would go a long way of making the game more alt-friendly.

or craft some exotic gear and bam you got your alts outfitted

I’m not sure I’m understanding your suggestion right. Are you actually asking to have an NPC that will cheaply sell you copies of your ascended armor and weapons so you don’t have to switch between them through the bank or craft more sets? If you make one set of armor you can get infinite copies for a small fee? If this is what you are asking, then there is no chance for that.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’m not sure I’m understanding your suggestion right. Are you actually asking to have an NPC that will cheaply sell you copies of your ascended armor and weapons so you don’t have to switch between them through the bank or craft more sets? If you make one set of armor you can get infinite copies for a small fee? If this is what you are asking, then there is no chance for that.

Basically this, but you’d still have to craft one set for each stat combination you want.

Ignavia.7420:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’m not sure I’m understanding your suggestion right. Are you actually asking to have an NPC that will cheaply sell you copies of your ascended armor and weapons so you don’t have to switch between them through the bank or craft more sets? If you make one set of armor you can get infinite copies for a small fee? If this is what you are asking, then there is no chance for that.

Basically this, but you’d still have to craft one set for each stat combination you want.

No if you want to gear out your character in full ascended craft more sets, or craft exotics on the ones you dont run fractals with and only transfer weapons and trinkets.

Edit

You realise that ascended is one of the few heavy gold sinks we have in the game and like most others its not necessary to do to enjoy all of the game

Anet has already killed 1-80 character progression by introducing the tomes, simplified most of the endgame character progression by making so much accountbound stuff (remember when legendaries was soulbound and you needed to build 2 to dualwield the skin? Yeah. That was a thing) and now you want to pretty much kill what remains of that progression by giving us a way to dupe items.

Cant say I am all that fond of the idea.

I made over 50 ascended weapons for my chars. With your suggestion I could have made only one set of weapons and then avoided the true cost of crafting the rest for the small amount of gold. Multiple this by all the players in the game who have or would craft multiple sets of weapons and armor and this would definitely impact the prices of all the mats that would have been used up in crafting. For this reason alone, it’s not a good idea.

So I craft 1 ascended clerics GS, then get a copy of it for 5g.
I throw the 5g copy into the forge to change its stats to zerker and got a new asc zerker gs for about 15g?

Looks legit.

No. That completely defeats the purpose of the time gating of ascended gear. ANet originally wanted exotics to be as difficult to acquire as ascended gear is now, but had to introduce ascended after realizing exotics were too easy to acquire.

Just craft more ascended gear the hard way or settle for exotics on your alts.

They want equipment to be per-character and tedious to exchange because it encourages you to make duplicates, which drains crafting materials and other resources from the overall economy. Otherwise, on a long enough timeline supply would grow to a point where everything is essentially worthless.

Please add this for legendary weapons and event items as well as crafting skills!

In fact why not just make one character on each account that you can choose what class/gear/training/traits/etc you want instead of having to actually swap toons!

Pandaman.4758:

No. That completely defeats the purpose of the time gating of ascended gear. ANet originally wanted exotics to be as difficult to acquire as ascended gear is now, but had to introduce ascended after realizing exotics were too easy to acquire.

Just craft more ascended gear the hard way or settle for exotics on your alts.

No, that was just an excuse because people complained about lack of gear grind.