Guild Wars 2

Hi.

Here’s the gist. My character has multiple bags, one of them being an “invisible” bag, one that is not supposed to be seen by the Trading Post window, when I go to “Sell Items.” So far, it’s doing that part right. Here’s the odd thing.

Let’s say I have 2 of the EXACT same weapon. Let’s say a “Strong Mace of Grawl Slaying, level 56 etc etc”. Well, this mace is currently the best mace I have, so I put one in my invisible bag and then I leave the other one in my normal bag to sell for later.

I go to sell and I right-click and sell the mace that’s in the normal bag. Bam, sold. Automatically, the TP brings up the SAME weapon again, with the “sell/list” window. I think to myself, “oh maybe I didn’t sell it” and hit sell again. Bam, sold.

Turns out, the 2nd weapon that came up was actually the weapon stored in my invisible bag. For whatever reason, the TP sees the identical weapon and automatically pulls it into the sell window, after I sell the first one, even if it was in an invisible bag.

Thankfully, I haven’t lost anything too valuable, but I did make this mistake at least 5-6 times. I keep noticing I had an empty slot in my invis bag, when I KNEW it used to be full.

So, in the recent update to TP, even if a weapon (I haven’t tried armor/access) is in an invis bag, if it’s IDENTICAL to any other weapon in the inventory, it pulls into to the TP window.

I hope that makes sense. Let me know if I need to clarify.

Thanks.

My one and only bump, just to move it up for the beginning of the week. Woooooo.

O.O whaa? Invisible bags shouldn’t appear in TP at all, even more the items inside it. That’s a huge issue indeed.

I found another thing to clarify on this….

When the item shows up in TP to sell, and then I sell it, because it’s identical to one in the invisible bag, the one invis version sells first, then the TP brings the item up again, this time, trying to sell the one in my normal bag. My bag order (as in the left hand side of inventory) does have my invis bag first. I haven’t tried it, but if my invis bag WASN’T the first in slot, it might never pull from it as it would be the “second identical weapon” it sees. Still, this is a bug, as nothing in the invisible bag should ever be seen to begin with. I will try my work-a-round and report back.

Stuff in the invisible bag should be in the category “can’t sell no matter what you do.” That’s how it works with every other part of the game (and how it worked before TP 2.0). It’s a significant bug.

Thanks for the research effort, Fox.

I saw this error as well. I had one stack of material (250 items) in my invisible bag, and a second stack of material (60 items) in a normal bag. The invisible bag is on top of my bags, the normal bag below it.
The second stack appeared as available for selling in the TP (60 items). I sold the 60 items. To my surprise, I found the 60 items still there, so I sold it again. It was still there!

Then I detected that 60 items I sold were not pulled from the stack in my normal bag, but from the stack in the invisible bag instead. And I saw that I in fact sold 2×60 items, since I sold 2 times.

The issue is that if there are 2 items of the same kind in your inventory, one in a normal bag and one in an invisible bag, and the invisible bag is on top of the normal bag, on selling the item is pulled from the invisible bag and not from the normal bag.

Pulling items from the topmost bags would be a normal behavior, but if it’s in a invisible bag they should be ignored as if they didn’t exist at all, this last is the bug.

Thanks for the confirmation. It always helps to know that I am not the only one. I haven’t switched my bag order yet, but I will be trying that today.

Came by to report:

As of the September 30 update, the bug still exists.

Also, I checked my theory to see if the bag order could be used as a work-around for now and it can. If your invis bag (see above posts) is not in the first slot or rather, not above whatever duplicate weapon you are selling, it does not sell the invis bag one, nor does the invis bag show up after sell. BUT if your invis bag is first in slot, then it will sell the invis bag version of the weapon first, before selling the other.

So please fix soon.

tldr – Bug exists that when one has IDENTICAL weapons (same stats/names) and is trying to sell one. If one of them exists in an invis bag, it sells that one first, if the bag is first in slot. The invis bag contents should NEVER show up on TP.

Just now I realized a thing. It wouldn’t matter which one of them would be sold if they are “identical” (they are the same after all). But if the second one also shows up to sell after the first is sold, then this is a huge issue. :P

You are correct, sure I have 2 of the same.

But, when I do my selling spree (emptying my pockets of everything) I assume that only stuff outside my invis bag is showing up. This bug defeats the purpose of the invisibility.

To be honest, this is only a concern for my leveling characters, as I get random drops, I constantly switch out for best in slot. My 80s hardly every get a drop that’s identical or better than what I have already.

It’s just a sneaky bug and people could sell without realizing it.