Guild Wars 2

One ArenaNet employee said on reddit that a central place where we could post information about inventory icon anomalies would be really helpful and would help in fixing them.

So I’d ask other players to pot here any inventory icons related issues you have noticed in game.

Things I’ve noticed:

• Inquest Helm(Crucible of Eternity dungeon armor) for medium armor is using the icon of Furnace Reward Helm(Sorrow’s Embrace dungeon armor) for medium armor.
• Inquest Weapons(Crucible of Eternity) inventory icons should be added to Dark Asuran Weapons(Sorrow’s Embrace). The latter have mostly stock icons.
• Twilight Armor weapons: Nightmare Harpoon, Nightmare Trident, Nightmare Greatsword don’t have unique icons like the other nightmare weapons.
• Arah weapons have stock icons.
• Medium Norn Tier 2 armor(Predatory) is using icons from Medium Norn Tier 1 armor(Wolfborn).
• All heavy and light Norn Cultural sets are using the same stock icons.
• Lionguard weapons from all tiers are using the icons from Norn Tier 3 cultural weapons.
• Wolfborn harpoon(Norn Tier 3 cultural weapon) does not have unique icon like all other Wolfborn weapons.
• Norn tier 1 and tier 2 cultural weapons are using stock icons.
• Ebon Vanguard Greatsword and Speargun are using stock icons for all 3 tiers.
• Charr Cultural Tier 3 weapons are using icons from Charr Cultural Tier 1
• Carrion Flame weapons(Charr Tier 2 cultural): Trident icon is completely different; speargun and spear have stock icons.
• Ravaging Steam Weapons(Charr Tier 1 cultural): Spear has stock icon; Rifle/Speargun and Staff/Trident have the same icon, but they also have the same weapon model so it’s probably not a bug.

The PvP locker has several armor and weapon skin errors (last I checked). Do you want those as well?

Vision of the Mists has a generic sword/greatsword icon. It is a beautiful sword and the icon does not do it justice!

Norn T3 cultural Armour uses stock images, from what i can tell.

The Destroyer weapons lack unique icons and use the generic ones. At least the greatsword and hammer do so I assume the others are the same.

Dagarax Shadowwalker.6219:

Norn T3 cultural Armour uses stock images, from what i can tell.

Confirmed at least for heavy armor. Worth 120 gold, but the icons are exactly the same of the no-value level-0 items.
You’ve got to be really careful not to salvage the wrong items :-)

Leatherworking: The Outlaw Shoulders (made with cotton insignias at 175 Leatherworking) has an icon that doesn’t look like the armor and the icon doesn’t match the icons of the rest of the set. (Rest of the set has yellow background highlights while the shoulders have blue.)

The icon for the fellblade is a generic greatsword after trasmutation.

Linsey, I understand GW2 is very large and the sheer volume of items in it that sometimes things here and there can be misplaced/misaligned, whatever word you want to use for the mix-up of icons; but don’t you think the people that were hired for this should have got it right the first time around? While icons are not specifically high on the to-do list, how can they manage to only get 5 of 6 armor pieces correct or to forget a whole set of weapons? I understand the odd one here and there but there has been a lot of muck-ups and they should be fixed asap, not waiting until there is a new monthly patch.

There is another issue with the Citadel of Flame medium armor. The icons for the chest piece and shoulders are not actually wrong, but more like…outdated.

By looking at the inventory icons I’d say that most likely at some point during game development the chest piece had no flaming particle effects and the flames from the current chest piece were actually part of the old shoulders piece for that armor. Probably due to major clipping issues with other chest pieces from different armors, the CoF chest piece ended up being the old chest piece merged with the shoulders piece and the CoF shoulders piece got a new model.

Just got a Mending Zweihander (Masterwork level 32 Greatsword [don’t know how much info you need]) that has one of the more generic Greatsword icons.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zweihander

Chimeric prism – HoM reward – when transmuted onto another focus, loses it’s unique icon.

The PvP locker has inconsistencies with armor that is flat out named wrong when compared with PvE. “leather” armor in the first row is Duelist. PvP “duelist” is the PvE marksman set. I am very confident that there are more inconsistencies between PvP and PvE gear but the current behavior of previewing frustrates this.

PvE Duelist has the generic leather armor icon and for some reason, the Fiery Dragon Sword HoM skin icon is different to the FDS icon when applied to a weapon, it looks like a shrunk render than the stylized skin icon.

Crafted rascal boots miss the purple background that the rest of the rascal set has.

The Beaded Speargun and Beaded Spear have swapped icons AND models. The speargun uses the Spear inventory icon and the spear model in-game, and the Spear uses the speargun assets (both icon and model).

Delacroix.2650:

the Fiery Dragon Sword HoM skin icon is different to the FDS icon when applied to a weapon, it looks like a shrunk render than the stylized skin icon.

That was fixed last patch, at least for me. The “shrunk” version is actually the GW1 icon for the FDS.

omg, any chance I can get this post noticed by Linsey?

Can you please make the sPvP locker come in columns of 12? Armor sets come in a set of 6 pieces, and having 10 columns just makes the arrangment all out of whack. It would be much, much, much, much more easier to track if it were in columns of 12 (two sets per row).

Linsey, can you please pass my compliments onto whoever designed the new icon for Mystic Claymore, it looks great – much more like the actual weapon. Also opening a dragon chest and just getting blues/2 greens last night wasn’t so bad with all the new icons and art, looks really good.

Just to confirm, what is and isn’t supposed to have the generic icon? Are all ‘somewhat named’ items supposed to have their own unique icon? I’d like to confirm that before making a list.

The awesome looking (especially for level 20) Jotun Greatsword has no unique icon.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jotun_Greatsword

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

Linsey, can you please pass my compliments onto whoever designed the new icon for Mystic Claymore, it looks great – much more like the actual weapon. Also opening a dragon chest and just getting blues/2 greens last night wasn’t so bad with all the new icons and art, looks really good.

Just to confirm, what is and isn’t supposed to have the generic icon? Are all ‘somewhat named’ items supposed to have their own unique icon? I’d like to confirm that before making a list.

I would say anything that doesn’t look like what you see when you preview the item should be on the list.

In theory you should be able find the correct piece of gear in your inventory without having to hover over everything assuming you took the effort to get unique skins for each item you are using.

The Ash Legion Spy Kit is currently the same icon as a Crude Salvage Kit, and the Order of Whispers Spy Kit is randomly a bomb without a background.

I will make note that all of the “of the Dragon’s Deep” weapons have generic icons, and do not have icons specifically showing what each of them look like. I anticipate that this is well-known to the devs, but figure I’ll mention it anyway. Thanks for the hard work, art team!

All the lv50 crafted Rare weapons from Weaponsmith/Artificer/Huntsman have the generic icon. They are the ones with Dredge in the name.

Centurions Claw HoM skin appears as a normal dagger in inventory when using the original transmutation from the HoM, and also after transmutation with a stone. The name and weapon itself are fine, only the inventory icon is incorrect. It has been like this since pre-release.

• Many of the HoM icons look similar to generic weapon icons.
• Mystic Salvage Kit icons are like Crude Salvage Kit (if there’s no unique variant, it should look like a Master’s Kit, since they have same stats)
• Liquid karma items look too much like anti-undead potions (e.g. Taste vs Minor, Swig vs regular, flask vs strong)

Thanks for taking a look at this.

Not a totally sure if this belongs here, I noticed that some transmuted items show different icons in different spots. Correct in my own bag, but in correct in the vendors sales window – is this something that you need to know as well?

Edit: How about an “Icon Artist Spotlight” for Maryeli? Totally love how crafting material ’looks" more valuable the higher the tiers get for example. Gotta love icons, they are a very vital part of representing the item!

Well, i found some too, hope they weren`t mentioned before:
- some pirate weapons have no unique icons
- had an asura greatsword using the tribal sword icon

LinseyMurdock.4165:

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Our Goddess of Icons, Maryeli, is going to be keeping an eye on this thread as well, so by all means, heap on the praise. She is amazing and she totally deserves it!

I fully agree with this, Maryeli has done a great job on icons. To the list of weapons that need accurate icons please add both the Peacemaker Longbow and Shortbow.

All tiers of NORN Cultural HEAVY Armor now only have stock/white images for their armor pieces.

This makes it dangerous to keep in your inventory, because especially now that everyone’s salvaging for Essences of Luck, you might accidentally mistake your expensive Cultural Armor for basic white/stock armor.

Would be good to get the icons back – they used to have proper icons.

Items: All of the Asura Cultural Tier 3 Medium ‘Prototype’ Armor
Issue: Incorrect Item Icons
Description:
All of the Asura Cultural Tier 3 Medium ‘Prototype’ Armor has generic icons instead of custom icons like other cultural gear. Would Maryeli happen to have time to create some beautiful icons for the gear?

A year after the game launched and Arah weapons still have white icons. The most prestigious dungeon rewards in the game.

Not to mention Asura T3 weapons as well…