skin effect of gathering tools
You can pass the tools among all your characters, as they are account-wide.
Good luck.
If you have account wide inventory slots you can put the tools in there and equip/unequip as needed. For it to work smoothly, equip regular tools on your chars. Then put the permanent tools in the account wide inventory slots. Click on the permanent tools to equip on that char. When you’re done, click on the regular tools (that are now showing in the inventory slots) to put the permanent tools back.
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.