Guild Wars 2

Having a load of junk in your inventory is a pain, I mean all the armor/weapons/upgrades boxes.

Then you open a couple and your inventory is overflowing with stuff you can’t use and don’t want.

Worse, after sorting it and playing the game you can’t keep any of the loot that dropped.

The alternative.

1) Provide a single set of armor/weapons where the stats can be changed. Make it Karma armor – soulbound and unsalvageable.

2) Provide an NPC to ‘sell’ zero cost souldbound runes/sigils to beta characters. This NPC can also provide free soulbound foods.

3) Allow people to access their Beta character outside of Beta events but only in the PvP lobby. This may encourage people to try PvP.

4) Make the Mystic Forge unusable by beta characters.

5)There is now no point in not allowing access to bank/npcs so duplicating the account wealth is no longer needed. Allow people to keep normal drops, put them into storage.

6) Prevent Beta characters using weapons/armor/upgrades that are not provided for it.

7) write a routine that bundles all the junk, err… very important loot, together and displays it as a side chest for the next character used if the beta character has to be deleted for whatever reason.

Its a beta. You are suppose to be testing it out. Not worrying about your inventory space, bank or loot that gets dropped. Everything you asked for would probably take months to implement into the beta that will be useless and wasted time when the beta is over and done with.

They did it the simplest way in my eyes. Gave you gear that you can pick your stats on. The left over gear you can just delete. Same with the runes.. I deleted and recreated toons several times. I never even went to my bank once on my beta toons or touched the mystic forge.. I was too busy trying the new stuff out to worry about anything you posted about.

briggah.7910:

Its a beta. You are suppose to be testing it out. Not worrying about your inventory space, bank or loot that gets dropped. Everything you asked for would probably take months to implement into the beta that will be useless and wasted time when the beta is over and done with.

They did it the simplest way in my eyes. Gave you gear that you can pick your stats on. The left over gear you can just delete. Same with the runes.. I deleted and recreated toons several times. I never even went to my bank once on my beta toons or touched the mystic forge.. I was too busy trying the new stuff out to worry about anything you posted about.

To some degree I agree with Serious as I had to use some time during BWE to empty all kind of loot from my inventory.

With only one chest open for armour and all kind of sigils/runes to pick from together with the pre-equipped (celestial) gear that I wanted to keep just in case I wanted to compare how much of difference there could be between stats, there was almost no space left over in my inventory.

While playing as I normally do with pressing [F] to collect loot and gathering mats from nodes, my inventory went full in no time. To clear space I had to move each individual part out of inventory, which is a rather annoying and time consuming process when time are limited to only a couple of days of beta.

I couldn’t bring myself to press F for loot, I know if I did, I would get a precursor for sure lol

briggah.7910:

Its a beta. You are suppose to be testing it out. Not worrying about your inventory space, bank or loot that gets dropped. Everything you asked for would probably take months to implement into the beta that will be useless and wasted time when the beta is over and done with.

They did it the simplest way in my eyes. Gave you gear that you can pick your stats on. The left over gear you can just delete. Same with the runes.. I deleted and recreated toons several times. I never even went to my bank once on my beta toons or touched the mystic forge.. I was too busy trying the new stuff out to worry about anything you posted about.

Then perhaps they should pay everyone $20 an hour for doing their work for them?

They decided on a cludge, then went for it. Not the simplest, or the best. It also meant a couple of exploits had to be fixed. I reported another one during the last beta. As for deleting your toon several times I guess you missed the idea being to test out the character progression, not just test the class. Perhaps you should have spent a few minutes reading what they were after?

Apparently they are not resetting the Beta characters this time, because they want people further along the progression. They have also provided 3 more beta slots for extra classes/characters. That means there is now very little reason to delete.

My main problem has been I open a box then I had to stand around deleting things I had no use for and didn’t want. Why do I need a hammer on a Ranger? Or a necro? or an ele?

Actually I missed one simple step, make ‘new stuff’ soulbound temporarily and give it a trash value so it can be sold to merchants.

I think I agree with the OP here. It took a fair amount of time to open just one box of armor and one box of weapons and one box of runes/insignia/consumables, find the armor and weapons I wanted, then select the stats, runes, insignias, consumables then delete the excess armor and weapons and stick the runes, insignias, consumables in the bank in case I needed them. After all that I hesitated in making and outfitting other professions.

If they had given us a box of [Profession] gear with selectable stats/insignias/runes, it wouldn’t have felt so time consuming and cumbersome.