Guild Wars 2

Rather than giving us all these boxes that instantly fill inventory with tons of junk you don’t want / can’t use, why not put in merchants at the starting point that sell bind on aquire “pick your stat” gear of choice for free or like a copper each?

For instance you can have a vendor for armor with tabs for heavy / medium / light , one for weapons, one for jewelry, and one for sigils / runes. Then we can jump in, grab the gear we want, and not have to dig through all the boxes and then delete all the other junk.

That would be nice. Alternatively, just put a basic merchant in at the start spot. Then we can sell the excess gear (this will help the new players who just joined for beta and don’t have enough coin for wp fees in the beta) and buy salvage kits (to help us consolidate inventory as we loot).

Gearing a new character was pretty annoying and I’d much rather be without any gear at all with a merchant at the start point to give me the gear I wanted. This would have the added bonus of having more choice on runes. sigils, and consumables … I found the choice in those pretty restrictive.

exactly spending 20+ min just sorting through gear and boxes of junk eat a good deal of time and by the time i was ready to play i was already kinda annoyed. I also have very limited amount of ply time with working full time and going to school so spending much of what I had on gear felt like a waste of my opportunity.

Why not just put 6 pieces of armor on your beta character that has the same drop down box tech that the legendaries use. Or better yet, 6 pieces of gear for runes to be put in and an open world pvp amulet with all the stat combinations you want available.

A merchant and/or the bank would have been nice at the start of Verdant Brink. I wasn’t really too fond of the boxes full of gear, other than just playing around by throwing them in the Forge.

The starting boxes of gear don’t include everything either. I wanted to try a Trapper Guardian using Rune of the Trapper but couldn’t because I couldn’t get the runes (without leveling up huntsman and crafting them after getting lucky and finding the recipe in WvW). I don’t think putting all the Runes in a box is a good fix either xD would fill your inventory even worse.