Guild Wars 2

I still get the point that they’re making more money this way, but it seems like this has just been forgotten/not thought of when the unlimited tools were implemented.

If you buy a pair of wings or a glider skin, you are able to put them to every single character you have and create in the future. And skins in general only cost 700 gems, so why would they keep such a good sharing system from account bound gathering tools that cost even more gems. Also, I do not think the crew of ArenaNet is choosing the profit of microtransactions over good player experience. This could be expected from several other, unnamed companies, not ANet.

And as wongdong stated, if the tools get lost in the process of deleting the character, it costs the company way more to even open the CS ticket and send out a reply (+ the recovery of these items) than what they earn for selling these tools.

I spent my hard earned cash just week ago to get myself something that really buffs up my gameplay and gets me to finally level up those crafting professions I’ve had for over three years just holding on in case I ever wandered back.

So I bought a set of these Halloween themed infinite tools from Gem Store for a thousand (1000) gems each, just to notice that I have to actually transfer the tools to another character if I were to play with some of my alts.

This seems rather weird, taking to count that these tools are in fact account bound and they are surely not meant to be bought for each character individually. And as we’ve experienced before, items can be delivered universally to all of our characters (Hero’s Band for example, if you’ve got the Deluxe edition of the original game).

What I am proposing here is that the tools should be available for every character individually, with no need to end the game session near bank where you put the tools in to pick them up again with another one of your characters. In my opinion the cleanest way to achieve this would be to bind these items to the Hero Panel, under the Equipment tab, so when I click on a mining pick, I would have the unlimited tool I’ve bought, ready to be used.

Wouldn’t you prefer this instead of transferring your tools all around and at some point possibly just ending up using the “normal tools” because it is just easier at the moment? In my opinion, it would be a great improvement to bring these up to all of our characters instead of just one.