Guild Wars 2

Nope, Experience Scrolls won’t…same with Birthday Boosters, and a few others. I don’t think this is something very high up the list of bugs to be fixed, as it’s been around for a long time.

Good luck.

Thanks though /15 char

a recent patch screwed up the stacking of black lion items.

now the new “account bound” will not stack with the old “account bound on acquire” anymore.

for obsidian shards, at least the problem is fixed by depositing then withdrawing.

for black lion items, there is no fix. unless we can deposit the items.

please help thanks.

let us deposit them.

You need to place the “bound on acquire” ones in your inventory and relog.

As far as I’m aware, there is a workaround for that ( ? ).

Put both items (new and old ones) into the inventory, relog or change zone. Now they’ll stack again.

Workaround aside, I sure as hell wouldn’t mind them being depositable simply to safe banking space.

ah, i see. thanks doggie, satenia!

Why won’t items of the same type stack? And why are some ‘account bound on acquire’ anyway? I acquired them already.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-Stacking-Items-merged/page/3#post4929289

Recently, many items (especially consumables) that should be stacking are not stacking properly. For example I have seemingly identical Experience Scrolls that don’t stack in my inventory. These items are of a same type (Account Bound).

Also, is there a need for differentiation of Account Bound and Account Bound on Acquire when the item is already acquired?

For the latter, that’s a tooltip cleanup I’d guess.

For the former, there’s a workaround: put all the items in your inventory on an alt, then either zone out and back or log out to character select and back. They should then combine in your bags, you can put them in the bank, and future acquisitions of that item type will stack as they should.

I remember reporting this within hours of the March 16th update.

As of like 28 days ago, they said they are working on a fix.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-Stacking-Items-merged/first#post4884783

I have tried storing them in my bank and combining the stacks on another character but that didn’t work. If I have to move my whole inventory to an alt to make this work, I’m not even going to try. In my opinion, we shouldn’t need a workaround anyways.

Nice to hear they at least know of the bug..

Yeah, it’s a bug.

To solve it, and to make the items stackable again, I just move to WvW/HotM. Mapping seems to make the items stackable again, so then I can just leave WvW/PvP and carry on as usual.

I’m sorry if I was unclear, I didn’t mean move them to another alt. I was trying to indicate they must be in bags carried on the person, not in bank tabs, or the rezoning trick won’t work because the items have to go through the zoning process.

You need only place ‘Account Bound on Acquire’ items in your inventory and change maps/log out. No need to place the ‘Account Bound’ items in your inventory. The map change will change most ‘Account Bound on Acquire’ (allows you to ‘acquire’ them) items to ‘Account Bound’.

Good luck.

Thanks! This helped although my 1st. BD Experience Scrolls which were Account Bound on Acquire before are Account Bound now, but still don’t stack. But my other problematic items work now.

Oh wow so much thank you for the rezoning tip!

I had two seperate piles of clovers and this was becoming quite the worry, thanks to you I now have them all in 1 pile =D

Same Experience Scrolls don’t stack.

Oskar.3791:

Same Experience Scrolls don’t stack.

Did you try the workaround? Effective for everything except the insta-L20 scrolls from birthday presents.

Why are similar items sometimes account bound and sometimes account bound on acquire so that you cannot pile them up?

Take the items into your inventory, change maps, and then re-stack them. The only thing that work around won’t work for is the year one experience scrolls and the year two ones; those will never stack on eachother.

Also, bugs should be posted in the bugs subforum.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-Stacking-Items-merged/page/4#post4980211

The on acquire ones I think are older ones. I’m assuming they changed something that caused them to no longer be account bound.

Over the past few months I’m noticing more items showing up that won’t stack with old versions of the same item. For example, tomes of knowledge that have a tag “Account bound on acquire” do not stack with tomes of knowledge that have the tag “Account bound”. Same with revive orbs, boosters and a few other items. It’s super frustrating having to waste two slots in your bank for the same item if you don’t plan on using it in the near future but want to hold onto it for later or for future characters..

Work around: Take them into your inventory, change maps, and then re-stack them.

I have 4 metabolic primers in my bank and just got 1 from a bl chest but they wont stack together same goes for gathering boosters and bank access express. i’ll post again if I find any others that aren’t stacking.

same goes with mistic stones and almost everything i get from black lion

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-Stacking-Items-merged/page/4#post4983264

You have to take all the piles out of whatever out, combine them, then add them back to the guild bank. Why? Is it some technical limitation, or intentional?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-Stacking-Items-merged/page/4#post4987415

I think this is an intentional limitation of the Guild Bank, as more than one person could be trying to access a given stack of items at the same time.(Unlike your personal bank, which is accessed by only one person.)

I had heard about this yes, but that’s not quite what was getting at I think. I’ve actually had no issues stacking items in my bank inventory or my character, oddly enough.

It’s the guild bank I’m meaning. If you have stackable items in the guild bank you can’t just drop more into the stack. Also if you have multiple stacks already in the guild bank, you can’t combine them.

In fact, it doesn’t matter where the stacks are, if you try to combine them within the guild bank, it doesn’t combine them – they just swap. Relogging doesn’t fix it. Nothing fixes it. Except removing everything from the guild bank – then combing works fine. No need to relog. That’s perhaps why I wondered if it was intentional – they don’t want you combing stacks within the guild bank for some reason.

Elden Arnaas.4870:

I think this is an intentional limitation of the Guild Bank, as more than one person could be trying to access a given stack of items at the same time.(Unlike your personal bank, which is accessed by only one person.)

Ah. That’s a good point.

Ahh..my bad. There has just been a lot of threads about the stacking bug.

Yes, the reason the double-click auto move/stack to the Guild bank is because multiple players may be accessing the items at the same time. Who should be given priority if the max stack limit will be reached with more than one addition at the same time? What should the log show?

Well, this should not have been moved or merged.^

Oh, well, it doesn’t matter as it is intended, not a bug, and not much to discuss.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Work around: Take them into your inventory, change maps, and then re-stack them.

Thank you very much for this. Problem solved!

The items I have that wouldn’t stack:
Karma Boosters
Magic Find Boosters
Instant Repair Canisters
Merchant Express
Trading Post Express
Bank Access Express