Mercutio.6312 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Over the years many things that were soulbound have become account bound. You've added shared inventory slots. Now you have announced the Legendary Armory so legendary items become shared. Now, I think it's time to make gathering tools shared as well. My idea is three shared slots for Gathering Tools with the ability to choose different skins for each character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeyspit.3965 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 If Permanent Gathering Tools were shareable across all my toons, I might actually buy a set. So long as I have to swap them between characters, either via the bank or shared inventory slots, it will remain a nope.avi. Now, for every player like me, are there less/more/equal amounts of players who are willing to buy more than 1 set of tools to avoid having to swap? That will determine whether or not it makes sense for ANET's wallet to make such a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taril.8619 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Alternatively, instead of shared gathering tool slots. Legendary gathering tools. With the Legendary Armoury, it'd be effectively the same thing. Whilst also providing potential to have some sick legendary skins and effects as well as a material sink to coincide with people being more enticed to harvest with more easily shared unbreakable tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Turkeyspit.3965" said: > If Permanent Gathering Tools were shareable across all my toons, I might actually buy a set. So long as I have to swap them between characters, either via the bank or shared inventory slots, it will remain a nope.avi. they already are, Unbreakable tools are account bound, not soulbound. ignore me, i misunderstood what you meant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incar.7358 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Parasite.5389" said: > > @"Turkeyspit.3965" said: > > If Permanent Gathering Tools were shareable across all my toons, I might actually buy a set. So long as I have to swap them between characters, either via the bank or shared inventory slots, it will remain a nope.avi. > > they already are, Unbreakable tools are account bound, not soulbound. > > But they still need to be swapped via the bank/shared inventory slots - as said. Talking about eliminating that process, which I'm all for. Dedicated tool slots which carry across like the shared inventory without needing to equipped would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 With the availability of shared inventory slots, which really don't take any significant time to use to swap tools around characters, I'm surprised that this is even a request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gert.7698 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 And what you gonne do with players -like me- who bought more gathering tools sets? I have bought 7 sets and 21 glyphs, but i would not bought them if they where shared.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc.1978 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"kharmin.7683" said: > With the availability of shared inventory slots, which really don't take any significant time to use to swap tools around characters, I'm surprised that this is even a request. For extended gathering sessions I agree. But this is not viable for all situations. For instance, I have 3 alts parked at the Rich Quartz Crystal node in Crystal Oasis right now. Every day, each of them picks up their 10 Quartz Crystal. It just takes a couple of seconds and then I switch character. Though I have a spare set of unlimited gathering tools available, I just can't bring myself to use it for that. Instead, I use the normal Orichalcum mining picks. Would be way too much micromanagement for me to equip tool, gather, unequip and then put it back into the shared slot again if I had to do it multiple times every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copestetic.5174 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Croc.1978" said: > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > With the availability of shared inventory slots, which really don't take any significant time to use to swap tools around characters, I'm surprised that this is even a request. > > For extended gathering sessions I agree. But this is not viable for all situations. For instance, I have 3 alts parked at the Rich Quartz Crystal node in Crystal Oasis right now. Every day, each of them picks up their 10 Quartz Crystal. It just takes a couple of seconds and then I switch character. Though I have a spare set of unlimited gathering tools available, I just can't bring myself to use it for that. Instead, I use the normal Orichalcum mining picks. > > Would be way too much micromanagement for me to equip tool, gather, unequip and then put it back into the shared slot again if I had to do it multiple times every day. It’s literally three to four extra seconds to drag them to Shared Inventory. That’s 9-12 seconds total. Good Lord, people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teratus.2859 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Incar.7358" said: > > @"Parasite.5389" said: > > > @"Turkeyspit.3965" said: > > > If Permanent Gathering Tools were shareable across all my toons, I might actually buy a set. So long as I have to swap them between characters, either via the bank or shared inventory slots, it will remain a nope.avi. > > > > they already are, Unbreakable tools are account bound, not soulbound. > > > > > > But they still need to be swapped via the bank/shared inventory slots - as said. > Talking about eliminating that process, which I'm all for. Dedicated tool slots which carry across like the shared inventory without needing to equipped would be great. The fact that you can share them between characters via bank/shared inventory slots makes them not being accessable on all characters at once quite annoying. It's just convinience at this point to allow this. It won't stop me buying specialized tools either, I get a lot of use from volatile ones even with several unbreakable tools on my account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pifil.5193 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Copestetic.5174" said: > > @"Croc.1978" said: > > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > > With the availability of shared inventory slots, which really don't take any significant time to use to swap tools around characters, I'm surprised that this is even a request. > > > > For extended gathering sessions I agree. But this is not viable for all situations. For instance, I have 3 alts parked at the Rich Quartz Crystal node in Crystal Oasis right now. Every day, each of them picks up their 10 Quartz Crystal. It just takes a couple of seconds and then I switch character. Though I have a spare set of unlimited gathering tools available, I just can't bring myself to use it for that. Instead, I use the normal Orichalcum mining picks. > > > > Would be way too much micromanagement for me to equip tool, gather, unequip and then put it back into the shared slot again if I had to do it multiple times every day. > > It’s literally three to four extra seconds to drag them to Shared Inventory. That’s 9-12 seconds total. Good Lord, people. You don't even have to drag them. You just put a permanent one in a shared inventory slot and equip an orichalcum one on each character. Then you open your inventory and double-click on the one in your shared inventory and it'll equip it, swapping it with whatever orichalcum tool you have equipped, then when you're done you double click them again to swap the orichalcum one back. A couple of seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game of Bones.8975 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I have three shared slots dedicated to harvesting tools. Each of my characters have a generic set (copper -> orichalcum) and I swap out the unbreakable/glyphed set each time I use that character. The only downfall is when you change characters and forget to swap them back. Then you have to hunt for which character you used them last or use gw2efficiency.com to do a search. I wanted a dedicated place for my harvesting tools a while ago because I had limited shared slots, but now I bought three more shared slots just for that purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skotlex.7580 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 +1 honestly, changing my permanent set every time I relog is so annoying I'd rather undergo the legendary grind route to get rid of it once and for all. Though, I'd totally prefer them available as account slots for 1k gems each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Red Arachnid.2493 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Quite frankly, I don't think it is worth the time investment to make a shared gathering slot. For one, there are people with multiple gathering tools. Second, we already have a shared inventory slot which lets us change gathering tools extremely fast. If Anet came out with shared gathering slots, I wouldn't buy any because I already have regular shared inventory slots to get the job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Pifil.5193" said: > > @"Copestetic.5174" said: > > > @"Croc.1978" said: > > > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > > > With the availability of shared inventory slots, which really don't take any significant time to use to swap tools around characters, I'm surprised that this is even a request. > > > > > > For extended gathering sessions I agree. But this is not viable for all situations. For instance, I have 3 alts parked at the Rich Quartz Crystal node in Crystal Oasis right now. Every day, each of them picks up their 10 Quartz Crystal. It just takes a couple of seconds and then I switch character. Though I have a spare set of unlimited gathering tools available, I just can't bring myself to use it for that. Instead, I use the normal Orichalcum mining picks. > > > > > > Would be way too much micromanagement for me to equip tool, gather, unequip and then put it back into the shared slot again if I had to do it multiple times every day. > > > > It’s literally three to four extra seconds to drag them to Shared Inventory. That’s 9-12 seconds total. Good Lord, people. > > You don't even have to drag them. > > You just put a permanent one in a shared inventory slot and equip an orichalcum one on each character. Then you open your inventory and double-click on the one in your shared inventory and it'll equip it, swapping it with whatever orichalcum tool you have equipped, then when you're done you double click them again to swap the orichalcum one back. A couple of seconds. Thanks for supporting my point. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatz.8437 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Copestetic.5174" said: > > @"Croc.1978" said: > > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > > With the availability of shared inventory slots, which really don't take any significant time to use to swap tools around characters, I'm surprised that this is even a request. > > > > For extended gathering sessions I agree. But this is not viable for all situations. For instance, I have 3 alts parked at the Rich Quartz Crystal node in Crystal Oasis right now. Every day, each of them picks up their 10 Quartz Crystal. It just takes a couple of seconds and then I switch character. Though I have a spare set of unlimited gathering tools available, I just can't bring myself to use it for that. Instead, I use the normal Orichalcum mining picks. > > > > Would be way too much micromanagement for me to equip tool, gather, unequip and then put it back into the shared slot again if I had to do it multiple times every day. > > It’s literally three to four extra seconds to drag them to Shared Inventory. That’s 9-12 seconds total. Good Lord, people. You don't need to drag them. Click on gathering slot in Hero panel. It will show all gathering tool of same type in Hero panel. Equip by right click or by click directly the tool you want active. If you have perm gathering tool in shared inv slot use right click and you should see which one is active and swap it (same way as weapon or armour can be done). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatz.8437 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 > @"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: > Quite frankly, I don't think it is worth the time investment to make a shared gathering slot. For one, there are people with multiple gathering tools. Second, we already have a shared inventory slot which lets us change gathering tools extremely fast. If Anet came out with shared gathering slots, I wouldn't buy any because I already have regular shared inventory slots to get the job done. It boils down too how expensive those special gathering slot vs shared slot would be. If the are in total cheaper (with cost of any perm gathering tool) then it might be worth it for some. Special material gathering tool bought with Karma can be a problem over time as those eat up more Karma then you get from playing on map which reward Karma. In that case buying perm tool take away that cost and let you use Karma for other thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rauderi.8706 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I would love this! The whole system needs an overhaul anyway. It's clunky and item-driven when it could be selectable dropdowns for each slot. Glyphs completely separate from the tools themselves, with their own dropdown (so I don't have to unequip and reequip them), and instead of selling tools with special effects (ie, the karma tools), have temporary glyphs that count down as they succeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incar.7358 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Not really interested in buying extra shared inventory slots on top of unbreakable gathering tools, so if I wanted to swap all 3 - only having 2 slots for them to sit in - I'd have to spend extra time travelling to and from a bank, or needlessly using up bank tokens anyway. Seems worthwhile to me to have dedicated shared slots for them, though there's no guarantee they wouldn't be made a purchasable extra anyways :/ ha, such is life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phazon.3975 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 I definitely wouldn’t mind shared tools even if I have purchased a few sets for aesthetic/thematic reasons. I find glyph swapping on my tools tedious especially transferring them over characters. Having a shared set with all-purpose glyphs for multi-character node runs, including new toons and key runners, would make life easier. I mean I wouldn’t mind if they added a second tool set to swap tools on the fly per character but this sounds much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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