Guild Wars 2

In the new Southsun content, I put down the “sample detector” to defend myself against a young kara. When the fight was over, the detector was gone.

When I went to the NPC to get another sample detector, the option was available, but no detector was given to me.

The “before” screenshot is attached.

Here’s the after. Note that my character is not equipped with a sample detector.

It’s in your inventory. A lot of people question this. Look for the item that shares the same icon as the Candy Corn detector from the halloween event. Should say “Sample Detector” for the item, or something along those lines.
White name for the color.
The description reads
“Levvi’s jury-rigged device for locating and collecting anomalos enviromental samples”

Grimno.6172:

It’s in your inventory. A lot of people question this. Look for the item that shares the same icon as the Candy Corn detector from the halloween event. Should say “Sample Detector” for the item, or something along those lines.
White name for the color.
The description reads
“Levvi’s jury-rigged device for locating and collecting anomalos enviromental samples”

Bingo. Not exactly where you’d expect it. :/ See screenshot; the green circle on the bottom row is the detector.

I had the same issue. I had no idea it had popped into my inventory. The game doesn’t notify you that you’ve received an item.

Yes…I found it in my inventory when I went to sell junk. I did not realize you did not have to reacquire it for the next use.

Nice, but it would be better if we had some sort of little hot bar off to the side that these type of things could sit in so that all you would have to do to equip it would be to hit that button, then it would be equipped without you having to open up your inventory and rummage around for it when you need it next time.

I was baffled by this, too. Would’ve thought that somebody would think to go “Hm, you know, this is kind of a new thing, a bundle that goes into the inventory when not being used. Maybe we should mention that it does that, or-nah, they’ll just look in their inventory. Sooner or later, anyway.”

The npc just should say in an anoying voice that it’s already in your inventory. And then insult you.