Guild Wars 2

Haven’t found this “idea” anywhere on the forum, so, there it is.

Right now, “Unlocked Rewards” tab are pretty useless, at least for me. All the items you can get from there is just “skins”, which are unlocked and free-to-apply anyway, so, you NEVER use this tab, i don’t at least, and can’t imagine why one would.

And now to the idea itself. I do have quite a few of gem-tools, infinite ones, yet, its quite a bother to toss them around between all my characters through the bank, as i can’t even send mail to myself, so, why not use this tab for “account-wide” things like that? They will never be lost again(did loose one of the tools!), and they can be on as many of your characters as you want.

Dunno why people buy these things. You need to gather 3000 ori atm to make up for the cost of the tool.

Pandeh.5248:

Dunno why people buy these things. You need to gather 3000 ori atm to make up for the cost of the tool.

No one is buying it to earn money. People buy them for the convenience of never having to worry about having the right tool again.

For me, its just a matter of not worrying about having tools in my inventory at all times. Its just a bother to toss them around between characters each time, as i have few and not very consistent with whoever i want to play xD

I keep mine on one toon always, and simply uses that one for gathering sprees – for random gathering the rest of my toons just uses the ori-tools

lordkrall.7241:

Pandeh.5248:

Dunno why people buy these things. You need to gather 3000 ori atm to make up for the cost of the tool.

No one is buying it to earn money. People buy them for the convenience of never having to worry about having the right tool again.

Or you could just convert the gems to gold, and “for a long time, not have to worry about collecting anything at all”

The convenience!

lordkrall.7241:

Pandeh.5248:

Dunno why people buy these things. You need to gather 3000 ori atm to make up for the cost of the tool.

No one is buying it to earn money. People buy them for the convenience of never having to worry about having the right tool again.

Not only that, but you can equip them on level 2 toons and mine orichalcum-tier mats with them as well. Some people do buy them to make gold.

Every time this topic comes up in any of it’s various forms, I will support it. premium gem store content should have account wardrobe space similar to minis, outfits and the like.

The original infinite tools were soul bound on equip for 800 gems. People complained and Anet changed them to account bound and allowed current owners to convert them to such through the black lion trader free of charge. At that point the price for new purchases increased to 1000 gems due to the tools being account bound. People with multiple copies of the same tool were given gem refunds if they requested them. I don’t expect them to be account wide anytime soon, if ever, unless the price goes up significantly and does not apply to current owners of said tools unless they pay for an account wide upgrade.

I thought it was a bad buy once as well. But never having to carry extra or worry about not having the right one is worth the price. It’s entirely about convenience. Same goes for the copper fed salvage kit.

It’s convenience and convenience only. I’m not expecting to get the cost of the tools back anytime soon. It’s like the copper fed salvage kit that people buy or the Royal pass to the site in Divinities Reach.

Once you’ve gotten all your chars geared up and the skins you want, gold starts accumulating. You can either hoard it for no real reason or you can buy the items that make things a bit easier.

As to OPs suggestion, I don’t see them doing it. They changed the tools from soulbound to accountbound. I don’t see them loosening the restrictions more than that.

Pandeh.5248:

lordkrall.7241:

Pandeh.5248:

Dunno why people buy these things. You need to gather 3000 ori atm to make up for the cost of the tool.

No one is buying it to earn money. People buy them for the convenience of never having to worry about having the right tool again.

Or you could just convert the gems to gold, and “for a long time, not have to worry about collecting anything at all”

The convenience!

Or, you could just buy the item and literally never have to worry about it ever again period. That’s why people buy them.

Maieath.8935:

Haven’t found this “idea” anywhere on the forum, so, there it is.

Right now, “Unlocked Rewards” tab are pretty useless, at least for me. All the items you can get from there is just “skins”, which are unlocked and free-to-apply anyway, so, you NEVER use this tab, i don’t at least, and can’t imagine why one would.

And now to the idea itself. I do have quite a few of gem-tools, infinite ones, yet, its quite a bother to toss them around between all my characters through the bank, as i can’t even send mail to myself, so, why not use this tab for “account-wide” things like that? They will never be lost again(did loose one of the tools!), and they can be on as many of your characters as you want.

Created 9 months ago, necroed 19h ago, responded to not even 5 hours ago:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Infinite-Gathering-tools-per-alt/first#post5008347

I’ll even quote myself:

The inifite gathering tools and the salvage-o-matics are not money makers. The exact calculation comes out to some years of play and use needed to recouper the const investment. They are strict convenience items.

Having 1 added to each character increases your convenience at no extra cost, thus anet makes less money. Not going to happen.

ps. be happy they made them account bound in the first place. the inifite gathering tools used to be soulbound.

I remember this tools being soulbound. As said, i even lost one of them due to that. But i’m not talking about just tools, about all acount items, like toys! I’d be glad to always carry one around, but swapping each one between characters is bothersome… I’m just saying that the system that already here(rewards) can actually be used for this thing, instead of generating more skins that you don’t even use now.

Behellagh.1468:

Same goes for the copper fed salvage kit.

I’ve never bought this because I figured that I would be spending way more gold with it than I am on kits now. Though it’s a pain to keep buying salvage kits, I don’t want all my money going toward using the permanent one.

Never seemed to me that 3 copper per salvage was all that much to worry about. Admittedly, I’ve not done the math to know how much more it is costing me. For me, it’s all about the convenience of never having to worry about running out of salvage kits again.

The savings is trivial, 1/2 a copper per, as I said it’s all about convenience.