Guild Wars 2

Osu.6307:

Schurge.5194:

I might actually buy those silly things if you were able to use them on all your characters simultaneously.

This is honestly the ONLY reason I have not bought the permanent harvesting tools. Anet could have made a lot more money if they had simply doubled the cost and made this an upgrade that automatically applied to all characters. The annoyance of removing them, putting them in the bank, and then taking them out again makes them worthless to anyone with multiple characters.

I relate to both of these. I ended up buying some when I had the spare cash, and I’ve had buyer’s remorse since for this reason, and because they were so sporadically available that what I’ve got have silly animations.

If people thought things like mail delivery animations were worth adding to account unlocking, I don’t see why harvesting equipment is any different. This goes for the salvage-o-matics, too; the reason I don’t use those is because they’re actually LESS convenient than regular salvage kits due to required swapping.

If my harvest tools were account-based, I’d probably even be happy to unlock some new (better) animations now that they aren’t weirdly kept out of the gem store.

Unrelated: It’s super weird that the Jungle Explorer’s Outfit isn’t in store for HOT release, since this is probably the only time I wanted to buy one. Missed thematic opportunity!