Guild Wars 2

I wasn’t able to narrow down the problem with my inventory sorting until recently. The issue is, the Fractal Exotic Equipment Box accepts all items. I made a new character that has one Fractal Exotic Equipment box and 4 Fractal Uncommon Equipment boxes. Blue and Green armor\weapons, crafting materials, and runes are automatically being put in the Exotic Equipment bag (despite having 3 empty uncommon boxes available). GW2 is treating the Exotic Equipment Box as a generic box to put any item in. The exotic box is the first box used in my inventory.

I believe, I submitted an in-game bug report 1 month ago about the issue. Wanted to create a forum post in case anyone has any additional thoughts to this problem.

Strange, I also have a problem with this box but not the same as you, I use the box to hold all my legendary weapons etc for when im swapping them out, and the only 1 that refuses to go into this box is The Minstrel ( focus ) unless I manually put it into this box it will not go into it when I hot swap my weapons out.

Fractal Exotic Equipment boxes, like any other special box/bag, will accept any item. The only special feature they have is pulling the specific item type to them. If the Fractal box is the first available free slot in your inventory, it will be used for the next item you obtain no matter what that item is. They will never refuse an item that doesn’t match their item type.

To effectively use these boxes, they need to be farther down in your inventory. Leave standard boxes/bags in the first slots, and allow the special boxes to drag items down to them.

mrstealth.6701:

Fractal Exotic Equipment boxes, like any other special box/bag, will accept any item. The only special feature they have is pulling the specific item type to them. If the Fractal box is the first available free slot in your inventory, it will be used for the next item you obtain no matter what that item is. They will never refuse an item that doesn’t match their item type.

To effectively use these boxes, they need to be farther down in your inventory. Leave standard boxes/bags in the first slots, and allow the special boxes to drag items down to them.

That’s totally strange and in my opinion, should be redesigned. Intuitively, people would think the inventory would look at items from top to bottom not bottom to top. Also, I feel the behavior of the bag should be change to: Use an exotic equipment bag for normal items when all other non exotic bags are filled. But I know this is up to ArenaNet to implement this.

Thank you for the useful insight, I’m not sure about reordering the bags of each of my characters after 2+ years but I may have to work with this backward design.

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mrstealth.6701:

Fractal Exotic Equipment boxes, like any other special box/bag, will accept any item. The only special feature they have is pulling the specific item type to them. If the Fractal box is the first available free slot in your inventory, it will be used for the next item you obtain no matter what that item is. They will never refuse an item that doesn’t match their item type.

To effectively use these boxes, they need to be farther down in your inventory. Leave standard boxes/bags in the first slots, and allow the special boxes to drag items down to them.

That’s totally strange and in my opinion, should be redesigned. Intuitively, people would think the inventory would look at items from top to bottom not bottom to top. Also, I feel the behavior of the bag should be change to: Use an exotic equipment bag for normal items when all other non exotic bags are filled. But I know this is up to ArenaNet to implement this.

Thank you for the useful insight, I’m not sure about reordering the bags of each of my characters after 2+ years but I may have to work with this backward design.

The mechanic is looking from top to bottom, except that it’s inclusive, i.e. prioritize special item(s) and pull any others, too. You’re thinking of it as an exclusive rule, i.e. only pull the special item(s), not anything else.

In other words, there are two “obvious” intuitions about how it “should” work, each of which is “backwards” to the other.

Regardless, this isn’t a bug so much as the design not match expectations for a significant portion of the community (even as it does match expectations for a different subset of players).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

reapex.8546:

mrstealth.6701:

Fractal Exotic Equipment boxes, like any other special box/bag, will accept any item. The only special feature they have is pulling the specific item type to them. If the Fractal box is the first available free slot in your inventory, it will be used for the next item you obtain no matter what that item is. They will never refuse an item that doesn’t match their item type.

To effectively use these boxes, they need to be farther down in your inventory. Leave standard boxes/bags in the first slots, and allow the special boxes to drag items down to them.

That’s totally strange and in my opinion, should be redesigned. Intuitively, people would think the inventory would look at items from top to bottom not bottom to top. Also, I feel the behavior of the bag should be change to: Use an exotic equipment bag for normal items when all other non exotic bags are filled. But I know this is up to ArenaNet to implement this.

Thank you for the useful insight, I’m not sure about reordering the bags of each of my characters after 2+ years but I may have to work with this backward design.

Regardless, this isn’t a bug so much as the design not match expectations for a significant portion of the community (even as it does match expectations for a different subset of players).

Yup, thank you for the added information.