Guild Wars 2

This is a serious bug that NEEDS to be fixed. I was clearing out my bank a bit to take advantage of the new deposit of items that once couldn’t be, like mystic coins.

I had 75 mystic coins in my bank, and I was going to right click and check the price of them on the market out of curiosity. Instead of clicking sell on traders, I selected mail item to. I didn’t want that so I quickly went for the clear button, but I instead clicked sent. My mystic coins immediately vanished from my inventory.

I was freaking out for a bit thinking the game just ate my 75 mystic coins, and I was kitten beyond belief. A few seconds later I get a mail from some random guy saying “Thanks! Merry Christmas!” At that point I was even more peeved that ANet set this up where a blank mail field would send my items to a random person. Seriously, why would you do that?

After begging a bit, I managed to get only 65 of my 75 coins back. I’m still peeved for ANets obvious glitch, but at least I got most of my coins back.

ANet, You need to look into this, and please see about refunding me my lost items because of this bug if possible.

When you use Mail Item To… the To field is populated automatically with the person standing nearest to you. It’s a really stupid design.

I discovered shortly after the game launched that if you opened a blank mail to pull items into for sending to someone, make sure you are not standing next to anyone. I did this to send to a guild mate of mine and what happened was there was a player standing right in front of me who got the mail instead.

Fortunately, she realized we did not know one another and I got a mail back from her saying “I think you sent these to me in error.” She actually did mention she needed some of those items, so what I did later is to send her some other things that I got in a drop which I could not use.

Not only is this a problem but there appears to be NO cancel option at all. If you use the esc key it really is not guarantee it will work as intended.

The upside of this, I made a new friend and someone with whom I enjoy grouping from time to time.

Yes, this is a terrible design. Perhaps there was more intelligent functionality intended but it didn’t get finished in time for release (or since). If anything, it would be smart to have an address book available where you can white list people so that when you send mail (especially with attachments) it will go off without issue if sent to one of those whitelisted people, but if the recipient isn’t in that list, a big fat p0rn-style blinky popup asks you to confirm you wish to send this email to that person.

As it is, there are no safeguards, and the methodology actually HELPS you to make mistakes. Once again, I can’t imagine a group of devs sitting around actually greenlighting this as a smart, finished, design. Regardless, it needs some attention.