Guild Wars 2

As the title says, it’d be great if the compact function in our bags could be changed to Sort, which, would not only place our items (except invisible bags and the like) going from Exotics down to whites but also compact the items within our bags. This function would also help reduce the chances of players mistakenly salvaging their poor exotics and rares with basic salvage kits or copper/silver fed-o-matics instead of using the much needed mystic and black lion salvage kits or wanting to sell said items in the TP. I’ve known many people who have done such said things grieving the loss of gold they could have earned with those items. One even swears they basic salvaged a precursor once! The horror, the horror….

rares & exotics already give a prompt which includes the items name (and its quality).

I’ve never had occasion to deliberately use compact, though. It would just totally wreck my bag organisation.

If we could sort and compact by bag, that’d work too. That way I could organize per bag, and not just compact everything..like r-click on the bag itself, and it brings up a menu to compact/deposit, etc, like it does from the settings icon.

Narrrz.7532:

rares & exotics already give a prompt which includes the items name (and its quality).

I’ve never had occasion to deliberately use compact, though. It would just totally wreck my bag organisation.

Yes but there are plenty of people who are color-blind and cannot see the colors surrounding each item. I use compact all the time then just buy salvage kits to use from the bottom up. And even though rares and exotics give prompts there are plenty of people who just use a mystic kit on their higher tier items without looking at what they are salvaging due to the amount of rares they have accumulated.

As I have said earlier a lot of people that have items that they like a certain way just get invisible bags or the like to prevent them from being moved out of order. Sort would still not mess with those items just as compact does not

What this idea does, is sort out items in regular bags from exotics down to whites making it less likely to salvage the rarer items that you got from drops, chests, and the like.

PlagueParade.7942:

less likely to salvage the rarer items that you got from drops, chests, and the like.

Run some fractals, buy the Exotic fractal bag. Dropped exotics will automatically sort into that bag.

I’ve always found those to be an awful waste of relics. Besides they do not compact and is usually a waste of space (I know that other items will fill the empty slots up if there are none left in other bags). The idea of Sorting is, I believe, a much better way to get your items in order. Also, there are plenty of people who do not like fractals. You would suggest to them to slave away at it anyhow to get a bag? Hm….

The problem with sorting is if people have such bags as well, or other purpose-specific bags. Granted, the fractal boxes are a rather cheap alternative to other boxes, in terms of gold cost.

I wouldn’t mind them adding a sort option, but it should be an addition, not a change to compact. I’d like to be able to compact my bags without changing how I have them sorted.

I really want a sort-function and already suggested it. If there are greens in my bag for exotics and exotics in my bag for greens they should be sorted accordingly. The current compact-function simply does nothing with those bags.

Also the compact-function needs to be reworked. Let’s say I have 40 stacks of dragonite-ore on my character. The first one looses 200 items to princess, leaving it at 50 and the last one only has 50. If I press compact I’d expect the first and last stack to be merged, leaving the last stack at 100 items. The current compact-function simply moves the first stack one place to the right. In order to merge the first and last stack I’d need to press compact 39 times.

I never use compact (as someone else said it would completely mess up the way I have my items organised) but this does sound like it could be a good addition.