Equipment Packs

Dude, nope not shutting the hell up but thanks for suggesting it:

Bigger bags are more expensive. So this is something to spend money on. If that is the case then make the EP with 1 slot and charge 1k for additional slots up to 20. so you can really spend money on it. Again what is gained from smaller bags, it sounds like getting a smaller bag is a negative.

Everything you list is COMPLETLY OPTIONAL. I would NOT consider additional storage an OPTIONAL thing. ANET/You can put the optional name on it but noone in their right mind would choose NOT to get additional storage if given a choice. Pay close attention to that NOONE WOULD CHOOSE NOT TO GET ADDITIONAL STORAGE.

You can choose not to go into FOW/DOA get a trophy item or money or skills unlocked. Sorry but your comparisons fail. Storage is premium and needed to store all the stuff you get from FOW/DOA and so on.

That makes sense I hope that is the case!

I find the fact the equipment bags come in various sizes as something AWESOME. I hope the bigger ones are pretty hard to get and can't be just obtained day 1 of the update.

GW really lacks in character development, and the new bags can fulfill this function at least - they will make great and desirable rewards for doing things in game, as opposed to "more of the same" approach GW used so far.

I'm actually hoping it'll be something that can be displayed on screen without the full inventory panel up. That way I can have somewhere convenient to put shields/weapons that I want to swap via double-click during PvP without taking up too much screen space.

Game-wise, I'm expecting to have to pay gold to get the equipment packs. Hopefully the price will not be restrictive. If it's true that they'll hold up to 20 items, then this will definitely solve my storage issues, since my PvE toons carry multiple sets of armor/weapons for PvP purposes. And it won't cost me any additional real money to get this, which is awesome.

I'm betting they'll be available via Zoins thereby allowing both the PvE and PvP crowd to access them by playing in their own preferred manner.

Most probable, because PvP peeps needs access to the Packs too. Seems Zoins are going to be all the rage.

Heh, I'm actually going to introduce her on air with that... thats awesome

Have you seen the Boycott Storage Update thread? This is very much not the case.

To clarify, that thread simply says many people will not pay real money to buy storage. At least not the asking price.

I think most people would drop up to 20k to get 20 slots in game. I am by no means wealthy by game standards, and I wouldn't bat an eye at that.

does anyone know if I can place non-customized weapons in there?

*that way I'd be able to put those vedor trash weps in there to save space

Apparently you can.

Seems that what they've done with the bags is replace the entry for who the item is customised for (which is probably three or four bytes of data per slot, given the number of characters in game) with a single bit - 'customised to bearer' and 'not customised'. Any item that doesn't fit in one of those categories can be put in the equipment bag.

So you can put merch-trash in there, or the stuff you're carrying around because it has mods on it you may want to salvage off sometime, or the green that you're not using but holding onto in case someone asks for it, but you can't use it to carry something customised to another character.

Well consider this. If they offered 5 slot equipment packs at a merchant for 100 gold, and for the 20 slot bag you had to complete quests where the difficulty was around that of DoA, which do you think more people would get?
You can choose to get the 5 slot or you can choose to go on the quests to get the 20 slot. You have the option of being lazy and only getting 5 slots extra or putting in effort and getting the max reward. I'd see no problem in setting it up in this way replacing the gold with a small number of zoins if necessary. Everyone can get extra storage its up to the player how much they want to work for it. Options are good, handing everything out easy because people don't want to work for it is bad.

IMO, it would be a great mechanic to have. I absolutely loved it in Morrowind years ago.

lol, i hope these things can carry multiple armor sets. my war has so many acquired from over the past few years >_<

I hope the opposite, that they will be readily available.

I sure have seen it. what boneyard said is on target. If this is for ingame money noone will have any issue obtaining it.

Would hate to see this linked with the new zaishen quests where you would have to complete all three types to obtain the best EP. Once again you would be forced to do things you normally would not just to get the additional storage. IMO is adding grind. But until it comes out it is all conjecture.....

I think all the solo players would be pissed if the quest/s was so hard that you needed a group to complete it. You have now forced them into a PUG (oh Joy) or not getting it.

No one seems to have spotted the current theme... I think the 5-slot will be free, and the extra 15 spaces will be optional purchases from the online store, in chunks of 5, at a guess.

We know the bags are limited in what they can contain, and that there are armour ones and weapon ones. Could it be that you can carry 20 slots worth of equipment pack, but you break that down how you want? Example: one 20 slot armour bag, or a 5 slot armour bag + a 15 slot weapon bag?

Edit: I hope there is some sort of quest / monster drop element to these equipment packs. If they are tradable then the players that don't like this idea can simply buy them from other players the same as everything else.

Nobody thought that you would just buy them from an NPC (Xunlai Agent?) and they'd have different prices?

100g, 1k, 10k, 100k?

This game needs more goldsinks, that wouldn't be a bad idea. In fact, I thought that's how additional tabs would work.

I could get behind that.

Regina did state that the Equiptment bag WILL NOT be linkrd to the F9 key and will be a seperate panel.

You win, congrats.