Seeing the concept of Shared Bag Slots on the gemstore, I thought it might be a good idea for you to implement quite a few of the following:
1. Unlock Second(and possibly more!) Armor Set Slot!
You may place a second armor set into the 6 slots provided, and swap to that armor at the press of a button. Furthermore, the Set Slots are shared for the respective armor weights of your professions. So if you are on your Guardian with Berserker gear, you can now just press a button and there, you fully equip your Soldier gear! What’s more is if you login on your Warrior, you can also press the button and equip either the Berserker or Soldier gear(whichever one is currently in the Second Armor Set Slot and not actively being used by another character).
2. Unlock Second(and possibly more!) Weapon Set Slot!
This follows the same concept as #1, but is a bit more complicated, because most classes have the weapon swap button, and it is not the same thing as the Second Weapon Slot. Your Current weapon is Greatsword, and the Swap weapon is Longbow. Your Second Weapon Set Slot is Hammer. With the press of a button(while out of combat), you can swap your active weapon with the Hammer. So if you wanted to go Greatsword+Hammer, you would need to Swap to Longbow first and make it the active weapon, then press the button to replace it with the Hammer. The same rule applies to #1, all professions capable of using said weapon will have it available as long as it is not equipped on another character’s main(or swap) weapon set.
3. Unlock Second(and possibly more!) Trinket/Backpack Slot!
Same concept.
Please note that all suggestions require to be out of combat for the button to work.
This resolves the issue of “the chore of build swapping”, that is sending armor pieces, weapons, trinkets back and forth to other characters, and also having to carry so many different armors/weapons/trinkets in our bags to swap builds on the same character, and any other issues such as accidentally selling your gear to merchant…etc.
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Consequences:
It is possible people might craft less Ascended Gear in the long run because of this convenience, but many players are already going through the hassle of unequipping whole characters whenever they decided to play another, and the above product would be very convenient for them.
For people who already own multiple sets(for example, you already crafted full Berserker Ascended Armor for your Ele and Necro), Ascended Stat switching already exists, and you simply get access to another set(change one of the sets to Viper).
Some players will actually craft more Ascended Armor sets, because they will now have a safe place to store their Second Armor, and every character(with same armor weight) will have access to it!
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I would consider this something on par with Shared Bag Slots, it would provide convenience to the player and is absolutely NOT necessary, so it could be sold like any other gemstore product. I dare say people would be willing to spend their gems on this type of convenience.